--- title: gēge («GUH-guh») is big brother, also an older boy a child looks up… — Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters · tree and pragmatics description: gēge («GUH-guh») is big brother, also an older boy a child looks up to; when you talk about one brother, you nearly always say whether he is older or younger. Who acts: gēge, child, you. 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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 (gēge, child, 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:9 # text = gēge («GUH-guh») is big brother, also an older boy a child looks up to; when you talk about one brother, you nearly always say whether he is older or younger. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 gēge gēge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ _ 4 GUH guh INTJ UH _ 1 appos _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 guh guh INTJ UH _ 4 flat _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 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 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 up up ADP IN _ 19 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 26 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 33 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 ccomp _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 conj _ _ 40 . . 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 | gēge | big brother | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look up** | present | a child | a older boy *not said here* | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Attribute | | 3 | **talk** | present | you | | | | | about one brother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about brother=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | child | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | child *not said here* | | | | | | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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. 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