Names and "how old are you?", sentence 7
nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? («nee JYOW SHUN-muh MING-dz») means what's your name?; kids ask kids, while grown-ups ask you, not the other way round.
Who acts: JYOW, kids, grown ups · What happens: shun, mean, be, ask, grow · To what, where: name, kids, other way, you · 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 (JYOW, kids, grown 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 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 means | dep |
| 2 | jiào | jiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nǐ | dep |
| 3 | shénme | shénme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 míngzi | compound |
| 4 | míngzi | míngzi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nǐ | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 nǐ | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 nee | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 nee | punct |
| 8 | nee | nee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 nǐ | conj |
| 9 | JYOW | JYOW | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 10 | SHUN | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 JYOW | acl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 JYOW | punct |
| 12 | muh | muh | INTJ | _ | 16 » | discourse |
| 13 | MING | MING | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 » | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dz | punct |
| 15 | dz | dz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 » | compound |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 JYOW | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 » | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 name | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 name | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 25 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ask | nsubj |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 means | parataxis |
| 27 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ask | iobj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ask | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 ask | mark |
| 30 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 ups | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 grown | punct |
| 32 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ask | nsubj |
| 33 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ask | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 ask | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 way | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 way | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 way | amod |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | round | round | ADV | _ | 39 way | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shun in a quote | infinitive | JYOW not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | JYOW | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | kids | kids | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | present | grown ups | the other way | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:7.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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