--- title: Grandparents say the same few things on every visit: nǐ zhǎng gāo le… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: Grandparents say the same few things on every visit: nǐ zhǎng gāo le! (you've grown so tall!), zhēn guāi! (such a good child!) and, at goodbye, hǎohāo xuéxí! (study hard!). Who acts: Grandparents, you. 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(study hard!). **Who acts:** Grandparents, you · **What happens:** say, grow, study · **To what, where:** same few things, visit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grandparents, you), 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:2 # text = Grandparents say the same few things on every visit: nǐ zhǎng gāo le! (you've grown so tall!), zhēn guāi! (such a good child!) and, at goodbye, hǎohāo xuéxí! (study hard!). # 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 ×6 1 Grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 nǐ nǐ X GW _ 6 appos _ _ 12 zhǎng zhǎng X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 13 gāo gāo X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 14 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 25 zhēn zhēn X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 26 guāi guāi X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 29 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 32 det:predet _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 40 hǎohāo hǎohāo X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 41 xuéxí xuéxí X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 44 study study VERB VB Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 45 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandparents | the same few things | | every visit | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | you | | | | | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **study** | infinitive | Grandparents *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×6. **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/). - ← previous: [Talking to the friend's grandparents, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/0/) - next →: [Talking to the friend's grandparents, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/)