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title: wǒ jiào ... («waw JYOW») means my name is ...; jiào falls, while jiǎ… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: wǒ jiào ... («waw JYOW») means my name is ...; jiào falls, while jiǎo (foot) and the jiǎo in jiǎozi (dumplings) dip. Who acts: wǒ, name, jiào, my. A sentence of the lesson «Names and "how old are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Names and "how old are you?", sentence 8

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wǒ jiào ... («waw JYOW») means my name is ...; jiào falls, while jiǎo (foot) and the jiǎo in jiǎozi (dumplings) dip.

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**Who acts:** wǒ, name, jiào, my · **What happens:** mean, be, fall, name · **To what, where:** jiǎo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wǒ, name, jiào, my), 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:8
# text = wǒ jiào ... («waw JYOW») means my name is ...; jiào falls, while jiǎo (foot) and the jiǎo in jiǎozi (dumplings) dip.
# 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
1	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	jiào	jiào	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	waw	waw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	JYOW	JYOW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	jiào	jiào	NOUN	FW	_	17	nsubj	_	_
17	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	jiǎo	jiǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
32	dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **mean** | present | wǒ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | my name |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | jiào | jiǎo and the jiǎo in jiǎozi dumplings |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dip=Result |
| 4 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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. **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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