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title: hǎohāo xuéxí («HOW-how SHWEH-shee») means study hard, said by elders… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics
description: hǎohāo xuéxí («HOW-how SHWEH-shee») means study hard, said by elders especially at goodbye and New Year; the answer is hǎo de, nǎinai! Who acts: hǎohāo. A sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 16

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hǎohāo xuéxí («HOW-how SHWEH-shee») means study hard, said by elders especially at goodbye and New Year; the answer is hǎo de, nǎinai!

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**Who acts:** hǎohāo · **What happens:** mean, study, say · **To what, where:** goodbye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hǎohāo), 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:16
# text = hǎohāo xuéxí («HOW-how SHWEH-shee») means study hard, said by elders especially at goodbye and New Year; the answer is hǎo de, nǎinai!
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	hǎohāo	hǎohāo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
2	xuéxí	xuéxí	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
4	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	SHWEH	SHWEH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
14	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	_
20	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:cop|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
30	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	ccomp	_	_
31	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	nǎinai	nǎinai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | hǎohāo |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **study** *not said to happen* | infinitive | hǎohāo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | goodbye and New Year |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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