Names and "how old are you?", sentence 9

nín guì xìng? («neen GWAY SHING») asks politely for someone's surname; you answer only wǒ xìng ..., because guì (honourable) is only for the other person.

Who acts: nín, GWAY, you, guì · What happens: xìng, ask, answer, be · To what, where: neen, xìng

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 (nín, GWAY, you, guì), 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	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	3 xìng	nsubj
2	guì	guì	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nín	flat:foreign
3	xìng	xìng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 xìng	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 neen	punct
6	«	«	ADP	_	7 neen	case
7	neen	neen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 xìng	obj
8	GWAY	GWAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asks	nsubj
9	SHING	SHING	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 GWAY	flat
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 GWAY	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 GWAY	punct
12	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 neen	parataxis
13	politely	politely	ADV	_	12 asks	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 surname	case
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 surname	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 someone	case
17	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asks	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 answer	nsubj
20	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 xìng	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 xìng	advmod
22	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 xìng	nmod:poss
23	xìng	xìng	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answer	obj
24	...	...	PUNCT	_	36 person	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 person	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 person	mark
27	guì	guì	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 person	nsubj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 honourable	punct
29	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 guì	amod
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 honourable	punct
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 person	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	36 person	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 person	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 person	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 person	amod
36	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answer	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 xìng	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	xìng	gerund	nín	neen		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	GWAY		for someone's surname; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	present	you	wǒ's xìng		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent xìng=Eventuality
4	is	present	guì		for the other person	tree rules

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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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