Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 15

"bù xǐhuan" means "don't like"; saying it about food at the friend's table is rude, so say "wǒ bú tài è", I'm not very hungry.

Who acts: bù xǐhuan, saying, I · What happens: mean, not like, say, be, not be · To what, where: nǐ, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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 (bù xǐhuan, saying, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 xǐhuan	punct
2	bù	bù	X	_	3 xǐhuan	compound
3	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	X	_	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 like	advmod
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 rude	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 rude	csubj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 friend	det
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 table	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 friend	case
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 rude	cop
22	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 wǒ	punct
27	wǒ	wǒ	X	_	25 say	parataxis
28	bú	bú	X	_	30 è	compound
29	tài	tài	X	_	30 è	compound
30	è	è	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wǒ	obl
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 è	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hungry	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 hungry	nsubj
34	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 hungry	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 hungry	advmod
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 hungry	advmod
37	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bù xǐhuan				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like in a quote	present · do-support					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	gerund		nǐ	the friend's table	about food	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is	present	saying			rude property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	bù xǐhuan not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not is	present	I			hungry property	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, 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:016-happy-angry-bored-scared.lesson:15.

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): R8-pos-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.

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