--- title: Before you look at a single toy you say «shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo!» (hell… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics description: Before you look at a single toy you say «shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo!» (hello Uncle, hello Auntie) — that's what children call a friend's parents, and two seconds of it wins them over. Who acts: you, that, children, two seconds. 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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 (you, that, children, two seconds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:1 # text = Before you look at a single toy you say «shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo!» (hello Uncle, hello Auntie) — that's what children call a friend's parents, and two seconds of it wins them over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shūshu shūshu X FW Foreign=Yes 9 obj _ _ 12 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 āyí āyí X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 15 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 hello hello INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ _ 20 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 hello hello INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 23 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 over over ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | you | | | | | at a single toy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at toy=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | shūshu | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shūshu=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present | children | a friend's parents | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **win over** | present | two seconds of friend | children *= child* | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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