Names and "how old are you?", sentence 15
Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) is a friendly name older people give to someone younger; a child never calls an adult Xiǎo anything.
Who acts: Xiǎo, older people, child · What happens: be, give, not call · To what, where: friendly name, someone, adult · 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 (Xiǎo, older people, child), 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 | Xiǎo | Xiǎo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nsubj |
| 2 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Xiǎo | flat |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wang | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wang | amod |
| 5 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Xiǎo | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wang | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | nsubj |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 someone | case |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 give | obl |
| 16 | younger | younger | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 someone | amod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 calls | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calls | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 calls | advmod |
| 21 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | parataxis |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 adult | det |
| 23 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calls | obj |
| 24 | Xiǎo | Xiǎo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 anything | compound |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 calls | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Xiǎo | a friendly name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | older people | a friendly name not said here | someone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to someone=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not call | present | a child | a adult | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme anything=Result |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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