--- title: qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō («ching neen MAHN DYAR SHWAW») means please… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō («ching neen MAHN DYAR SHWAW») means please could you speak more slowly; many grandparents speak Cantonese, Hokkien or another dialect, which the friend may not fully understand either. Who acts: qǐng, you, many grandparents, friend. 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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 (qǐng, you, many grandparents, friend), 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:17 # text = qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō («ching neen MAHN DYAR SHWAW») means please could you speak more slowly; many grandparents speak Cantonese, Hokkien or another dialect, which the friend may not fully understand either. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 2 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 màn màn X FW Foreign=Yes 5 dep _ _ 4 diǎnr diǎnr X FW Foreign=Yes 5 compound _ _ 5 shuō shuō X FW Foreign=Yes 1 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 ching ching X FW Foreign=Yes 1 conj _ _ 9 neen neen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 list _ _ 10 MAHN MAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 DYAR DYAR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 SHWAW SHWAW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 please please INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 Cantonese Cantonese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Hokkien Hokkien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:appos 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 fully fully ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 40 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **qǐng** | gerund | | nín | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | qǐng | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | you | | | | | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | many grandparents | Cantonese and Hokkien or another dialect | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **understand** | may | the friend | another dialect | | | | either, fully *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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