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title: Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng is his own, and when his mum shouts «Wáng Míng!» across the flat, he is in trouble, just like in English. Who acts: full name, Wáng, Míng, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Names and "how old are you?"» of the chinese street course of
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# Names and "how old are you?", sentence 3

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Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng is his own, and when his mum shouts «Wáng Míng!» across the flat, he is in trouble, just like in English.

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**Who acts:** full name, Wáng, Míng, mum, name, Ming · **What happens:** be, shout, name · **To what, where:** Wáng Míng, name, flat, trouble

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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 (full name, Wáng, Míng, mum), 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:3
# text = Ming's full name is Wáng Míng: Wáng is the whole family's name, Míng is his own, and when his mum shouts «Wáng Míng!» across the flat, he is in trouble, just like in English.
# 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	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Wáng	Wáng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Míng	Míng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flat	flat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **is a** | present | Ming's full name | Wáng Míng |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Wáng | the whole family's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Míng |  |  |  |  | like English; own *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | name's mum | Wáng Míng |  | the flat |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent míng=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | name |  |  | trouble |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | Ming |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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/).

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