--- title: dúshēngzǐ («DOO?-shung-dz») is an only child (for a girl dúshēngnǚ);… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: dúshēngzǐ («DOO?-shung-dz») is an only child (for a girl dúshēngnǚ); it is not sad or strange, and many parents who grew up in China are only children themselves. Who acts: dúshēngzǐ, dúshēngnǚ, many parents. 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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 (dúshēngzǐ, dúshēngnǚ, many parents), 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:15 # text = dúshēngzǐ («DOO?-shung-dz») is an only child (for a girl dúshēngnǚ); it is not sad or strange, and many parents who grew up in China are only children themselves. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 dúshēngzǐ dúshēngzǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 DOO doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 shung shung ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 flat _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 dz dz NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 dúshēngnǚ dúshēngnǚ NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:compound 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 41 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:appos 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | dúshēngzǐ | a only child and children | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | dúshēngnǚ | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | dúshēngnǚ *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow up** | past | many parents | China | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | many parents | | | | | in children; parents *= parent* *nmod* | 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:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/14/) - next →: [Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/)