--- title: Grown-ups have their own rules: they ask each other «nín guì xìng?»… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups have their own rules: they ask each other «nín guì xìng?» (your honourable surname?), call younger friends Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) and old mates Lǎo Lǐ (old Li), with warmth, not rudeness. Who acts: Grown ups, ups, younger friends. 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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 (Grown ups, ups, younger friends), 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:4 # text = Grown-ups have their own rules: they ask each other «nín guì xìng?» (your honourable surname?), call younger friends Xiǎo Wáng (little Wang) and old mates Lǎo Lǐ (old Li), with warmth, not rudeness. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 13 « « X GW _ 10 parataxis _ _ 14 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 15 guì guì X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 16 xìng xìng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 goeswith _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 18 » » X PRP _ 13 goeswith _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 surname surname X NN _ 13 flat _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 27 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 Xiǎo Xiǎo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 30 Wáng Wáng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Wang Wang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 38 Lǎo Lǎo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Lǐ Lǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 41 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 Li Li PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 rudeness rudeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Grown ups | ups's own rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | ups *= up* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **xìng** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | younger friends and old mates | | | | | with warmth and rudeness | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rule** | | ups *= up* | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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?", 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/3/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)