--- title: nín guì xìng? («neen GWAY SHING») asks politely for someone's surnam… — Names and "how old are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: nín guì xìng? («neen GWAY SHING») asks politely for someone's surname; you answer only wǒ xìng ..., because guì (honourable) is only for the other person. Who acts: nín, GWAY, you, guì. 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(«neen GWAY SHING») asks politely for someone's surname; you answer only wǒ xìng ..., because guì (honourable) is only for the other person. **Who acts:** nín, GWAY, you, guì · **What happens:** xìng, ask, answer, be · **To what, where:** neen, xìng 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 (nín, GWAY, you, guì), 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:9 # text = nín guì xìng? («neen GWAY SHING») asks politely for someone's surname; you answer only wǒ xìng ..., because guì (honourable) is only for the other person. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nsubj _ _ 2 guì guì X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 xìng xìng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 neen neen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 8 GWAY GWAY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 SHING SHING PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 12 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 politely politely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 surname surname NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 22 wǒ wǒ PRON PRP$ Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 xìng xìng NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 ... ... PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 27 guì guì NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **xìng** | gerund | nín | neen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | GWAY | | | | | for someone's surname; politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | wǒ's xìng | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent xìng=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | present | guì | | | | | for the other person | tree rules | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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?", 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/8/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/)