--- title: nín shēntǐ hǎo ma («neen SHUN-tee HOW mah», literally «is your body… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: nín shēntǐ hǎo ma («neen SHUN-tee HOW mah», literally «is your body well?») means are you keeping well; asking an elder about health is caring, not nosy. Who acts: SHUN, nín ma, you, elder. 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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 (SHUN, nín ma, you, elder), 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:10 # text = nín shēntǐ hǎo ma («neen SHUN-tee HOW mah», literally «is your body well?») means are you keeping well; asking an elder about health is caring, not nosy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 4 flat:foreign _ _ 2 shēntǐ shēntǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 neen neen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 8 SHUN SHUN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 tee tee VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 appos _ _ 11 HOW how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 mah mah ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 literally literally ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 well well INTJ UH _ 27 discourse _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 22 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 28 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 csubj _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 caring caring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:parataxis 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 nosy nosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tee** *in a quote* | infinitive | SHUN | mah » | | | | « neen | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | your body | | | | literally *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | nín ma | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep** | present · progressive | you | | | | | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a elder | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | caring *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **be** | | asking *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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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