--- title: Many British Chinese children have a Yīngwén míngzi (English name) a… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Many British Chinese children have a Yīngwén míngzi (English name) at school and a Chinese name at home; it is kind to ask which they prefer. Who acts: Many British Chinese children, míngzi, ups. 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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 (Many British Chinese children, míngzi, ups), 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:17 # text = Many British Chinese children have a Yīngwén míngzi (English name) at school and a Chinese name at home; it is kind to ask which they prefer. # 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 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Yīngwén Yīngwén PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 míngzi míngzi NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many British Chinese children | a Yīngwén míngzi and a Chinese name at home | | school | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent míngzi=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | míngzi | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | míngzi *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **prefer** | present | ups *= up* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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:17`. **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. **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?", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/16/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)