--- title: Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàn… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics description: Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" — what's the weather like? — and Lín, looking out at grey Britain, says "yīntiān", a cloudy day, as usual. Who acts: granny, video call, Lín. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (granny, video call, Lín), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:0 # text = Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" — what's the weather like? — and Lín, looking out at grey Britain, says "yīntiān", a cloudy day, as usual. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 tiānqì tiānqì X FW Foreign=Yes 15 nsubj _ _ 15 zěnmeyàng zěnmeyàng X FW Foreign=Yes 12 advcl _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 nsubj _ _ 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:appos 34 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 35 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 yīntiān yīntiān X FW Foreign=Yes 35 nsubj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Lín's granny | | | a video call | | with China | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lín's granny *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a video call | the weather | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look out** | gerund | Lín *not said here* | grey Britain | | | | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lín | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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