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title: wǒ jiǔ suì («waw JYO SWAY») means I'm nine; jiǔ (nine) dips, while j… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: wǒ jiǔ suì («waw JYO SWAY») means I'm nine; jiǔ (nine) dips, while jiù with a fall means just or then. Who acts: wǒ jiǔ, I, fall. 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 13

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wǒ jiǔ suì («waw JYO SWAY») means I'm nine; jiǔ (nine) dips, while jiù with a fall means just or then.

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**Who acts:** wǒ jiǔ, I, fall · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** nine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wǒ jiǔ, I, fall), 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:13
# text = wǒ jiǔ suì («waw JYO SWAY») means I'm nine; jiǔ (nine) dips, while jiù with a fall means just or then.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	jiǔ	jiǔ	X	FW	_	11	nsubj	_	_
3	suì	suì	X	FW	_	2	goeswith	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	waw	waw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	JYO	JYO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
8	SWAY	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	ccomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	jiǔ	jiǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	dips	dip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	jiù	jiù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **mean** | present | wǒ jiǔ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | nine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a fall |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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