--- title: lǎorénjiā («LAOW-run-JYAH») is a respectful word for an elder, as in… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: lǎorénjiā («LAOW-run-JYAH») is a respectful word for an elder, as in tā lǎorénjiā shēntǐ hǎo; calling an elder just lǎo de (the old one) is rude. Who acts: lǎorénjiā, elder, calling. 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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 (lǎorénjiā, elder, calling), 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:20 # text = lǎorénjiā («LAOW-run-JYAH») is a respectful word for an elder, as in tā lǎorénjiā shēntǐ hǎo; calling an elder just lǎo de (the old one) is rude. # 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 ×2 1 lǎorénjiā lǎorénjiā PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 LAOW LAOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:GW:_ 8 JYAH JYAH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 tā tā PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 22 lǎorénjiā lǎorénjiā X GW ExtPos=PROPN 21 list _ _ 23 shēntǐ shēntǐ X GW _ 22 goeswith _ _ 24 hǎo hǎo X GW _ 22 flat _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 26 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 csubj _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 lǎo lǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 28 appos _ _ 31 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 30 flat _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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 | **is a** | present | lǎorénjiā | a respectful word | | | | for a elder | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | gerund | a elder | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | calling | | | | | rude *property* | 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:20`. **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 ×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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