Names and "how old are you?", sentence 17

Many British Chinese children have a Yīngwén míngzi (English name) at school and a Chinese name at home; it is kind to ask which they prefer.

Who acts: Many British Chinese children, míngzi, ups · What happens: have, be, ask, prefer · To what, where: Yīngwén míngzi, school · 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 (Many British Chinese children, míngzi, ups), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 míngzi	det
7	Yīngwén	Yīngwén	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 míngzi	compound
8	míngzi	míngzi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
10	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 name	amod
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 míngzi	appos
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 school	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 name	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 name	det
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 name	amod
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 míngzi	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 name	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kind	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	cop
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ask	mark
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	advcl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prefer	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 prefer	nsubj
29	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ask	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many British Chinese children	a Yīngwén míngzi and a Chinese name at home	school		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent míngzi=Patient
2	is	present	míngzi			kind property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	míngzi not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	prefer	present	ups = up				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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:17.

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. 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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