--- title: qǐng zuò («ching DZWAW») means please sit down; wait to be shown whe… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics description: qǐng zuò («ching DZWAW») means please sit down; wait to be shown where, because at the table the best seat is for the eldest. Who acts: best seat. 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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 (best seat), 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:10 # text = qǐng zuò («ching DZWAW») means please sit down; wait to be shown where, because at the table the best seat is for the eldest. # 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 1 qǐng qǐng X FW Foreign=Yes 9 csubj _ _ 2 zuò zuò X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ching ch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 DZWAW DZWAW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 please please INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 11 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 eldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **ch** *in a quote* | gerund | | DZWAW | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | | | | the table | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | | 4 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **is** | present | the best seat | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | 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:10`. **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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