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title: Chinese grannies have one rule: "chuān duō diǎnr!" — wear more layer… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese grannies have one rule: "chuān duō diǎnr!" — wear more layers! — and from October to May they want you in "qiūkù", long johns, literally "autumn trousers". Who acts: Chinese grannies, layers. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 3

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Chinese grannies have one rule: "chuān duō diǎnr!" — wear more layers! — and from October to May they want you in "qiūkù", long johns, literally "autumn trousers".

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**Who acts:** Chinese grannies, layers · **What happens:** have, wear, want · **To what, where:** one rule, more layers, you, qiūkù

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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 (Chinese grannies, layers), 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:3
# text = Chinese grannies have one rule: "chuān duō diǎnr!" — wear more layers! — and from October to May they want you in "qiūkù", long johns, literally "autumn trousers".
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grannies	granny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	chuān	chuān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	duō	duō	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	diǎnr	diǎnr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	qiūkù	qiūkù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	johns	john	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
37	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Chinese grannies | one rule |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | infinitive |  | more layers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent layer=Source |
| 3 | **want** | present | layers *= layer* | you |  | qiūkù and long johns and autumn trousers | october |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |

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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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**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:3`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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