--- title: Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) is a friendly name older people give to some… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) is a friendly name older people give to someone younger; a child never calls an adult Xiǎo anything. Who acts: Xiǎo, older people, child. 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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 (Xiǎo, older people, child), 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:15 # text = Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) is a friendly name older people give to someone younger; a child never calls an adult Xiǎo anything. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Xiǎo Xiǎo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 Wáng Wáng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Wang Wang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obl _ _ 16 younger younger ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 23 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 Xiǎo Xiǎo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Xiǎo | a friendly name | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | older people | a friendly name *not said here* | someone | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to someone=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **call** | present | a child | a adult | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme anything=Result | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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?", 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/14/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)