--- title: yéye nǎinai hǎo («YEH-yeh NIGH-nigh HOW») means hello Grandad and Gr… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: yéye nǎinai hǎo («YEH-yeh NIGH-nigh HOW») means hello Grandad and Granny, said to the friend's grandparents before anything else; they may beam and say zhēn guāi! Who acts: yéye, Grandad. 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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 (yéye, Grandad), 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:9 # text = yéye nǎinai hǎo («YEH-yeh NIGH-nigh HOW») means hello Grandad and Granny, said to the friend's grandparents before anything else; they may beam and say zhēn guāi! # 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 1 yéye yéye X FW Foreign=Yes 15 nsubj _ _ 2 nǎinai nǎinai X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 YEH YEH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 7 - - PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 yeh yeh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 NIGH nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 nigh nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 12 HOW how ADV GW Typo=Yes 11 advmod _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 hello hello INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 17 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obl _ _ 29 else else ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 beam beam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 zhēn zhēn X FW Foreign=Yes 35 obj _ _ 37 guāi guāi X FW Foreign=Yes 36 flat:foreign _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | yéye | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grandad and Granny | | the friend's grandparents | | before anything | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grandparent=Recipient | | 3 | **beam** | may | grandad | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | grandad *not said here* | zhēn | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zhēn=Topic | 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:9`. **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. **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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