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title: shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo («SHOO-shoo HOW, AH-ee HOW») means hello Uncle,… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics
description: shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo («SHOO-shoo HOW, AH-ee HOW») means hello Uncle, hello Auntie, said to the friend's dad and mum the moment you walk in; forgetting it is the biggest mistake. Who acts: shūshu, Auntie, you, forgetting. A sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of t
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# At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 7

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shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo («SHOO-shoo HOW, AH-ee HOW») means hello Uncle, hello Auntie, said to the friend's dad and mum the moment you walk in; forgetting it is the biggest mistake.

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**Who acts:** shūshu, Auntie, you, forgetting · **What happens:** shoo, mean, say, walk in, forget, be · **To what, where:** Uncle, dad, moment, friend, biggest mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 (shūshu, Auntie, you, forgetting), 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:7
# text = shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo («SHOO-shoo HOW, AH-ee HOW») means hello Uncle, hello Auntie, said to the friend's dad and mum the moment you walk in; forgetting it is the biggest mistake.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	shūshu	shūshu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	āyí	āyí	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat	_	_
5	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	SHOO	shoo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	shoo	shoo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	HOW	how	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	AH	ah	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	HOW	how	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	15	appos	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
24	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc
33	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	csubj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
45	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **shoo** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shoo** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | shūshu | Uncle and Auntie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Auntie *not said here* |  | the friend's dad and mum |  | moment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dad=Recipient |
| 5 | **walk in** | present | you | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory |
| 6 | **forget** | gerund |  | friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | forgetting | the biggest mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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