--- title: And if Granny speaks fast, or in Cantonese or Hokkien, «qǐng nín màn… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: And if Granny speaks fast, or in Cantonese or Hokkien, «qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō» asks her kindly to slow down. Who acts: Granny. 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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 (Granny), 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:8 # text = And if Granny speaks fast, or in Cantonese or Hokkien, «qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō» asks her kindly to slow down. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 fast fast ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Cantonese Cantonese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Hokkien Hokkien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 15 nín nín NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 màn màn X FW Foreign=Yes 18 dep _ _ 17 diǎnr diǎnr NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 shuō shuō NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 20 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Granny | | | | | fast *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **qǐng** *in a quote* | gerund | Granny *not said here* | nín | | | | diǎnr shuō *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | granny | | | kindly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **slow down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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