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title: On the first day at the park a girl asks you «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: On the first day at the park a girl asks you «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?» (what's your name?). Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Names and "how old are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Names and "how old are you?", sentence 0

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On the first day at the park a girl asks you «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?» (what's your name?).

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** nǐ, you, name

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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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:005-names-and-how-old.lesson:0
# text = On the first day at the park a girl asks you «nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?» (what's your name?).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 005-names-and-how-old.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	_
14	jiào	jiào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	shénme	shénme	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
16	míngzi	míngzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a girl | nǐ | you |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | your name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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