Names and "how old are you?", sentence 10

wǒ xìng Wáng («waw SHING WAHNG?») means my surname is Wang; xìng sounds like the xìng in gāoxìng (happy), and context tells them apart.

Who acts: you, Wáng, surname, xìng, context · What happens: wǒ, xìng, she, mean, be, sound · To what, where: Wang, Kids · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Wáng, surname, xìng), 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	wǒ	wǒ	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	xìng	xìng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wǒ	advcl
3	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 waw	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 waw	punct
6	waw	waw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Wáng	appos
7	SHING	she	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 WAHNG	compound
8	WAHNG	WAHNG	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 »	compound
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 WAHNG	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 waw	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 waw	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 xìng	parataxis
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 surname	nmod:poss
14	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Wang	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Wang	cop
16	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 means	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 xìng	punct
18	xìng	xìng	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sounds	nsubj
19	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wǒ	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 xìng	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 xìng	det
22	xìng	xìng	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sounds	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 gāoxìng	case
24	gāoxìng	gāoxìng	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 xìng	nmod
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 happy	punct
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gāoxìng	parataxis
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 happy	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tells	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tells	cc
30	context	context	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tells	nsubj
31	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wǒ	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tells	iobj
33	apart	apart	ADV	_	31 tells	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 wǒ	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wǒ	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	xìng	gerund	you not said here				tree rules
3	she in a quote	gerund					tree rules
4	mean	present	Wáng				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	my surname	Wang			tree rules
6	sound	present	xìng			like the xìng in gāoxìng	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	present	context		Kids = kid	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:10.

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, 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.

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