Names and "how old are you?", sentence 14

nín duō dà niánjì le? is the very polite way to ask an old person's age; in Chinese culture it shows respectful interest.

Who acts: nín duō, fall · What happens: be, ask, show · To what, where: polite way, age, respectful interest

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 (nín duō, 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	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	2 duō	flat:foreign
2	duō	duō	X	_	11 way	nsubj
3	dà	dà	X	_	2 duō	flat:foreign
4	niánjì	niánjì	X	_	2 duō	flat:foreign
5	le	le	X	_	2 duō	flat:foreign
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 duō	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 polite	advmod
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ask	mark
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 way	acl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 age	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 person	case
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ask	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shows	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 culture	case
21	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 culture	amod
22	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shows	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shows	nsubj
24	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	parataxis
25	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 interest	amod
26	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shows	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nín duō	the polite way		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		a old person's age		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient
3	show	present	fall	respectful interest	in Chinese culture	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent interest=Patient in culture=Topic

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:14.

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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