--- title: wǒ xìng Wáng («waw SHING WAHNG?») means my surname is Wang; xìng sou… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: wǒ xìng Wáng («waw SHING WAHNG?») means my surname is Wang; xìng sounds like the xìng in gāoxìng (happy), and context tells them apart. Who acts: you, Wáng, surname, xìng. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Wáng, surname, xìng), 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:10 # text = wǒ xìng Wáng («waw SHING WAHNG?») means my surname is Wang; xìng sounds like the xìng in gāoxìng (happy), and context tells them apart. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 wǒ wǒ VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 xìng xìng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 3 Wáng Wáng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 waw waw NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 SHING she VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 8 WAHNG WAHNG PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 surname surname NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 Wang Wang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 xìng xìng NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 xìng xìng NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gāoxìng gāoxìng NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 context context NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 apart apart ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wǒ** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **xìng** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **she** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | Wáng | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | my surname | Wang | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | present | xìng | | | | | like the xìng in gāoxìng | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | context | | Kids *= kid* | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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](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:10`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Names and "how old are you?", 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/9/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)