--- title: Every Sunday Mei-Lin in London video calls her cousin in Shanghai; t… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away · tree and pragmatics description: Every Sunday Mei-Lin in London video calls her cousin in Shanghai; the cousin teaches her Chinese words, and Mei-Lin teaches her slang: «That's peng» (London for really nice). Who acts: Mei, cousin, That. 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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 (Mei, cousin, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:12 # text = Every Sunday Mei-Lin in London video calls her cousin in Shanghai; the cousin teaches her Chinese words, and Mei-Lin teaches her slang: «That's peng» (London for really nice). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Lin Lin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Shanghai Shanghai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 Lin Lin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 26 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:aux 33 peng peng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 really really ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Mei in London | video | | | sunday | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the cousin | Mei's Chinese words | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Mei | Mei's slang | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent slang=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | peng *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **word** | | Mei | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **slang** | | Mei | | | | | | nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:12`. **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, 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. 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