Names and "how old are you?", sentence 13
wǒ jiǔ suì («waw JYO SWAY») means I'm nine; jiǔ (nine) dips, while jiù with a fall means just or then.
Who acts: wǒ jiǔ, I, fall · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: nine · 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 (wǒ jiǔ, I, fall), 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 | X | _ | 2 jiǔ | compound |
| 2 | jiǔ | jiǔ | X | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | suì | suì | X | _ | 2 jiǔ | goeswith |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 waw | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 waw | punct |
| 6 | waw | waw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jiǔ | appos |
| 7 | JYO | JYO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 SWAY | compound |
| 8 | SWAY | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waw | compound |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 waw | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 waw | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 nine | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nine | cop |
| 14 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dips | punct |
| 16 | jiǔ | jiǔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dips | compound |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 nine | punct |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 jiǔ | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 jiǔ | punct |
| 20 | dips | dip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 means | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 jiù | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 jiù | mark |
| 23 | jiù | jiù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dips | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 means | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fall | det |
| 26 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 jiù | parataxis |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 means | advmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 then | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 just | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wǒ jiǔ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | nine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a fall | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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, 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:13.
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, R6-punct-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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