--- title: wǒ mā («waw MAH») is a casual «my mum» among kids, as in «wǒ mā shuō… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: wǒ mā («waw MAH») is a casual «my mum» among kids, as in «wǒ mā shuō bù xíng» (my mum says no); his mum is āyí to you. Who acts: mā, mum. 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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 (mā, mum), 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:17 # text = wǒ mā («waw MAH») is a casual «my mum» among kids, as in «wǒ mā shuō bù xíng» (my mum says no); his mum is āyí to you. # 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 ×1 1 wǒ wǒ PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mā mā NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 waw waw NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 MAH MAH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 casual casual NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 wǒ wǒ SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 mā mā PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shuō shuō VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 25 bù bù PRON GW Number=Sing|PronType=Ind|Typo=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 xíng xíng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod:poss 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 32 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 31 obj _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 āyí āyí ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | wǒ's mā | a casual | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shuō** *in a quote* | present | mā | bù | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **xíng** *in a quote* | gerund | mā *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 5 | **is** | present | MAH's mum | | you | | | āyí *property* | 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:17`. **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 ×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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/15/) - next →: [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/)