Names and "how old are you?", sentence 6

Kids ask «nǐ jǐ suì le?» but to a granny people say the very polite «nín duō dà niánjì le?», and in Chinese culture she may be proud to answer «bāshí le!» (eighty!).

Who acts: Kids, people, mum · What happens: ask, say, be, answer · To what, where: polite nín duō, granny, Chinese culture, bāshí · 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 (Kids, people, 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	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	5 jǐ	flat:foreign
5	jǐ	jǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ask	parataxis
6	suì	suì	X	Foreign=Yes	5 jǐ	flat:foreign
7	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	5 jǐ	flat:foreign
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 duō	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 granny	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 people	det
13	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 duō	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 polite	advmod
18	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 duō	amod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 duō	punct
20	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	21 duō	flat:foreign
21	duō	duō	X	Foreign=Yes	15 say	obj
22	dà	dà	X	Foreign=Yes	21 duō	flat:foreign
23	niánjì	niánjì	X	Foreign=Yes	21 duō	flat:foreign
24	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	21 duō	flat:foreign
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 duō	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 duō	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 proud	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 proud	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 culture	case
30	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 culture	amod
31	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 proud	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 proud	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 proud	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 proud	cop
35	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ask	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 answer	mark
37	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 proud	xcomp
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 answer	punct
39	bāshí	bāshí	X	Foreign=Yes	37 answer	obj
40	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	39 bāshí	flat:foreign
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 duō	punct
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 answer	punct
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 eighty	punct
44	eighty	eighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 duō	conj
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 eighty	punct
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 eighty	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Kids					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	a people	the polite nín duō and eighty	granny			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duō=Topic to granny=Recipient
3	is	may	mum			Chinese culture	proud property	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	mum not said here	bāshí				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bāshí=Eventuality

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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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