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title: nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma? means have you got brothers or sisters?; a… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics
description: nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma? means have you got brothers or sisters?; answers are yǒu, wǒ yǒu yí ge dìdi, or méiyǒu. Who acts: nǐ, you. 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 pragmatics of 
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# Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 14

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nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma? means have you got brothers or sisters?; answers are yǒu, wǒ yǒu yí ge dìdi, or méiyǒu.

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**Who acts:** nǐ, you · **What happens:** yǒu, get, be · **To what, where:** xiōngdì, brothers, yǒu

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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 (nǐ, you), 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:14
# text = nǐ yǒu xiōngdì jiěmèi ma? means have you got brothers or sisters?; answers are yǒu, wǒ yǒu yí ge dìdi, or méiyǒu.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	nǐ	nǐ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yǒu	yǒu	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	xiōngdì	xiōngdì	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	jiěmèi	jiěmèi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
5	ma	ma	PART	RP	_	2	discourse	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	yǒu	yǒu	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	_
21	yǒu	yǒu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat	_	_
22	yí	yí	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ge	ge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dìdi	dìdi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	méiyǒu	méiyǒu	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yǒu** | present | nǐ | xiōngdì and jiěmèi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present · perfect | you | brothers or sisters |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | nǐ *not said here* | yǒu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): 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.

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

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