--- title: nín xiān chī («neen SHYEN CHR») means please eat first; children don… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: nín xiān chī («neen SHYEN CHR») means please eat first; children don't start until the eldest picks up the chopsticks or invites them with chī ba, chī ba! Who acts: nín chī, children, eldest. 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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 (nín chī, children, eldest), 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:11 # text = nín xiān chī («neen SHYEN CHR») means please eat first; children don't start until the eldest picks up the chopsticks or invites them with chī ba, chī ba! # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 3 amod _ _ 2 xiān xiān X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 chī chī NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 neen neen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 7 SHYEN SHYEN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 CHR CHR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 please please INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 eldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod 23 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 chī chī NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 chī chī ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 ! ! 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 | **mean** | present | nín chī | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | | | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **start** | present · do-support | children | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **pick up** | present | the eldest | the chopsticks | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopstick=Topic | | 5 | **invite** | present | the eldest *not said here* | chopsticks *= chopstick* | | | | with chī ba and ba | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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