Names and "how old are you?", sentence 0
On the first day at the park a girl asks you «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?» (what's your name?).
Who acts: girl · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: nǐ, you, name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Names and "how old are you?"» 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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asks | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 park | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 park | det |
| 7 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asks | nsubj |
| 10 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 asks | iobj |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 nǐ | punct |
| 13 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 asks | obj |
| 14 | jiào | jiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 15 | shénme | shénme | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 16 | míngzi | míngzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 asks | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 asks | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 name | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 name | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 name | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asks | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 name | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 name | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a girl | nǐ | you | day | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | your name | 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, 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:005-names-and-how-old.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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