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title: jiějie («JYEH-jyeh») is big sister and any big girl to little childr… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics
description: jiějie («JYEH-jyeh») is big sister and any big girl to little children; younger ones never call her by her name. Who acts: jiějie, younger ones. A sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 10

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jiějie («JYEH-jyeh») is big sister and any big girl to little children; younger ones never call her by her name.

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**Who acts:** jiějie, younger ones · **What happens:** be, not call, name · **To what, where:** big sister, jiějie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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 (jiějie, younger ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:10
# text = jiějie («JYEH-jyeh») is big sister and any big girl to little children; younger ones never call her by her name.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	jiějie	jiějie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	JYEH	JYEH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	jyeh	jyeh	PROPN	NNP	_	4	flat	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | jiějie | big sister and any big girl to little children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **call** | present | younger ones |  | jiějie |  |  | by jiějie's name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | jiějie |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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