Names and "how old are you?", sentence 18
In Wáng Míng the family name Wáng comes first and the given name Míng second.
Who acts: family name · What happens: come, give · To what, where: Wáng
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 (family name), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Wáng | case |
| 2 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 3 | Míng | Míng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wáng | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | compound |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | appos |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 comes | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Míng | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Míng | nsubj |
| 14 | Míng | Míng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | conj |
| 15 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 comes | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the family name | Wáng | first, second property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wáng=Location | |||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:18.
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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