Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 2
Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", but nobody is dying — sǐ (death) just means "really, really", like "lèi sǐ le", dead tired.
Who acts: Kids, drama, nobody, sǐ · What happens: love, qì, be, die, mean · To what, where: drama, wǒ le · 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 (Kids, drama, nobody, sǐ), 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 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | parataxis |
| 3 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 qì | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 qì | punct |
| 6 | qì | qì | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drama | acl:relcl |
| 7 | sǐ | sǐ | ADV | _ | 8 wǒ | advmod |
| 8 | wǒ | wǒ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 le | amod |
| 9 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 qì | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 drama | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 drama | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 13 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 angry | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 angry | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dying | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 dying | cc |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 dying | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dying | aux |
| 24 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 angry | conj |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 sǐ | punct |
| 26 | sǐ | sǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | nsubj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 death | punct |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sǐ | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 death | punct |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 means | advmod |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dying | ccomp |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 really | punct |
| 33 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 really | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 really | punct |
| 35 | really | really | ADV | _ | 31 means | conj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 really | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 tired | punct |
| 38 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 46 tired | mark |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 le | punct |
| 40 | lèi | lèi | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 le | dep |
| 41 | sǐ | sǐ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 le | compound |
| 42 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tired | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 le | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 tired | punct |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tired | advmod |
| 46 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 means | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Kids | drama | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drama=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | qì in a quote | past | drama not said here | wǒ le | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | to death; angry, literally property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | present · progressive | nobody | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | sǐ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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, R7-rel-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.
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