--- title: Kids ask «nǐ jǐ suì le?» but to a granny people say the very polite… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Kids ask «nǐ jǐ suì le?» but to a granny people say the very polite «nín duō dà niánjì le?», and in Chinese culture she may be proud to answer «bāshí le!» (eighty!). Who acts: Kids, people, mum. 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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 (Kids, people, 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:6 # text = Kids ask «nǐ jǐ suì le?» but to a granny people say the very polite «nín duō dà niánjì le?», and in Chinese culture she may be proud to answer «bāshí le!» (eighty!). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 4 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 5 jǐ jǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 2 parataxis _ _ 6 suì suì X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 21 duō duō X FW Foreign=Yes 15 obj _ _ 22 dà dà X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 23 niánjì niánjì X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 24 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 culture culture NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 39 bāshí bāshí X FW Foreign=Yes 37 obj _ _ 40 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 39 flat:foreign _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 44 eighty eighty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Kids | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a people | the polite nín duō and eighty | granny | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duō=Topic to granny=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | may | mum | | | Chinese culture | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | mum *not said here* | bāshí | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bāshí=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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?", 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/5/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)