Names and "how old are you?", sentence 3
Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng is his own, and when his mum shouts «Wáng Míng!» across the flat, he is in trouble, just like in English.
Who acts: full name, Wáng, Míng, mum, name, Ming · What happens: be, shout, name · To what, where: Wáng Míng, name, flat, trouble
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 (full name, Wáng, Míng, mum), 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 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Míng | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Míng | cop |
| 6 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Míng | compound |
| 7 | Míng | Míng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 own | parataxis |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 9 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 family | amod |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 family | case |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Míng | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Míng | punct |
| 17 | Míng | Míng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 own | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 own | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Míng | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Míng | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 shouts | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mum | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shouts | nsubj |
| 26 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 own | advcl |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 Míng | punct |
| 28 | Wáng | Wáng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Míng | compound |
| 29 | Míng | Míng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shouts | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 Míng | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 Míng | punct |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 34 flat | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 flat | det |
| 34 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shouts | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 trouble | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 trouble | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 trouble | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 trouble | case |
| 39 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 own | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 English | punct |
| 41 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 English | advmod |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 English | case |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 English | case |
| 44 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 own | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 own | 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 | Ming's full name | Wáng Míng | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Wáng | the whole family's name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Míng | like English; own property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | name's mum | Wáng Míng | the flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent míng=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | present | name | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | Ming | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:3.
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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