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title: When Ming says «lái wǒ jiā wánr ba» (come and play at my house), jiā… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ming says «lái wǒ jiā wánr ba» (come and play at my house), jiā is both home and family, and the invitation is real. Who acts: Ming, invitation. 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 t
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# Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 6

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When Ming says «lái wǒ jiā wánr ba» (come and play at my house), jiā is both home and family, and the invitation is real.

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**Who acts:** Ming, invitation · **What happens:** say, come, play, be · **To what, where:** house, home · **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 (Ming, invitation), 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:6
# text = When Ming says «lái wǒ jiā wánr ba» (come and play at my house), jiā is both home and family, and the invitation is real.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	cc	_	_
6	wǒ	wǒ	X	GW	_	3	ccomp	_	_
7	jiā	jiā	X	GW	_	6	flat	_	_
8	wánr	wánr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	»	»	X	NN	_	6	flat	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	goeswith	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	jiā	jiā	X	NN	_	6	flat	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ming |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive |  |  |  | my house |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | home and family |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the invitation |  |  |  |  | real *property* | 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:6`.

**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, 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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