--- title: nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? («nee JYOW SHUN-muh MING-dz») means what's yo… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? («nee JYOW SHUN-muh MING-dz») means what's your name?; kids ask kids, while grown-ups ask you, not the other way round. Who acts: JYOW, kids, grown ups. 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(«nee JYOW SHUN-muh MING-dz») means what's your name?; kids ask kids, while grown-ups ask you, not the other way round. **Who acts:** JYOW, kids, grown ups · **What happens:** shun, mean, be, ask, grow · **To what, where:** name, kids, other way, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (JYOW, kids, grown 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:7 # text = nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? («nee JYOW SHUN-muh MING-dz») means what's your name?; kids ask kids, while grown-ups ask you, not the other way round. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 18 dep _ _ 2 jiào jiào X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 3 shénme shénme NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 míngzi míngzi NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 9 JYOW JYOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 10 SHUN shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 12 muh muh INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 13 MING MING PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 dz dz NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 nsubj _ _ 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 27 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 iobj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 round round ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shun** *in a quote* | infinitive | JYOW *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | JYOW | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | your name | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | kids | | kids | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | grown ups | the other way | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:7`. **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 ×3, 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?", 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/6/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)