--- title: nín zuò zhèr («neen DZWAW JAR») means please sit here; giving your s… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: nín zuò zhèr («neen DZWAW JAR») means please sit here; giving your seat to an elder on a sofa or a bus is expected, not extra-nice. Who acts: nín, giving. 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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, giving), 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:12 # text = nín zuò zhèr («neen DZWAW JAR») means please sit here; giving your seat to an elder on a sofa or a bus is expected, not extra-nice. # 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): no change 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 11 nsubj _ _ 2 zuò zuò X GW _ 1 flat _ _ 3 zhèr zhèr X NN _ 2 goeswith _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 neen neen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 goeswith _ _ 7 DZWAW DZWAW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 JAR jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 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 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 csubj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | nín | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **sit** | infinitive | | | | here | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | gerund | | your seat | a elder | a sofa or a bus | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to elder=Recipient on sofa=Asset | | 4 | **expect** | present · passive | giving | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» | 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:12`. **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): no change. **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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