Names and "how old are you?", sentence 8

wǒ jiào ... («waw JYOW») means my name is ...; jiào falls, while jiǎo (foot) and the jiǎo in jiǎozi (dumplings) dip.

Who acts: wǒ, name, jiào, my · What happens: mean, be, fall, name · To what, where: jiǎo · 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 (wǒ, name, jiào, my), 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	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
2	jiào	jiào	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wǒ	appos
3	...	...	PUNCT	_	2 jiào	punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 waw	punct
6	waw	waw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
7	JYOW	JYOW	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waw	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 JYOW	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 JYOW	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
14	...	...	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 falls	punct
16	jiào	jiào	NOUN	_	17 falls	nsubj
17	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 is	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 falls	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 jiǎo	mark
20	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 falls	xcomp
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 foot	punct
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jiǎo	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 foot	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jiǎo	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jiǎo	det
26	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jiǎo	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 dumplings	case
28	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dumplings	amod
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 dumplings	punct
30	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 jiǎo	nmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 falls	punct
32	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 falls	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	wǒ		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	my name		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	present	jiào	jiǎo and the jiǎo in jiǎozi dumplings	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dip=Result
4	name		my		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:8.

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. 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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