--- title: zhēn guāi («JUN GWIGH») means such a good child; guāi means well-beh… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: zhēn guāi («JUN GWIGH») means such a good child; guāi means well-behaved, and it is the highest praise from a granny. Who acts: zhēn, guāi, child. 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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 (zhēn, guāi, child), 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:15 # text = zhēn guāi («JUN GWIGH») means such a good child; guāi means well-behaved, and it is the highest praise from a granny. # 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 ×1 1 zhēn zhēn X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 2 guāi guāi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 cc _ _ 5 JUN JUN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 GWIGH GWIGH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 13 det:predet _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 guāi guāi X FW Foreign=Yes 16 nsubj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 behaved behave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | zhēn | such good child | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | guāi | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **behave** *not said to happen* | participle | guāi *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | child | the highest praise | | | | from a granny | 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:15`. **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 ×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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