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title: "qiūkù" means long johns or thermal leggings, literally "autumn trou… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "qiūkù" means long johns or thermal leggings, literally "autumn trousers", and grandparents insist on them from October to May. Who acts: qiūkù, grandparents. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 16

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"qiūkù" means long johns or thermal leggings, literally "autumn trousers", and grandparents insist on them from October to May.

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**Who acts:** qiūkù, grandparents · **What happens:** mean, insist · **To what, where:** long johns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (qiūkù, grandparents), 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:16
# text = "qiūkù" means long johns or thermal leggings, literally "autumn trousers", and grandparents insist on them from October to May.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	qiūkù	qiūkù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	johns	john	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	thermal	thermal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	leggings	legging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
13	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	insist	insist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | qiūkù | long johns or thermal leggings |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Topic |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | grandparents |  |  |  | may; october | on qiūkù | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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): 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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