--- title: Ming's yéye and nǎinai (grandad and granny) live with his family, an… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: Ming's yéye and nǎinai (grandad and granny) live with his family, and to them you are a guest child to be fussed over. Who acts: yéye, you. 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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 (yéye, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:0 # text = Ming's yéye and nǎinai (grandad and granny) live with his family, and to them you are a guest child to be fussed over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.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 ×3, R5-strong ×1 1 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 yéye yéye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 nǎinai nǎinai NOUN FW Foreign=Yes 3 conj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 fussed fuss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 27 over over ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Ming's yéye and nǎinai | | | | | with Ming's family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | you | a guest child | yéye | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fuss over** | to-infinitive · passive | Ming's yéye and nǎinai *not said here* | | | | | | 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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R5-strong ×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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