Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 8

"qì sǐ wǒ le" is a dramatic "it's driving me mad!"; sǐ (death) is used for "really, really", as in "lèi sǐ le", dead tired.

Who acts: qì, shēngqì · What happens: sǐ, be, drive, use · To what, where: wǒ le, shēngqì, sǐ · 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 (qì, shēngqì), 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 sǐ	punct
2	qì	qì	X	Foreign=Yes	3 sǐ	nsubj
3	sǐ	sǐ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 le	amod
5	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sǐ	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 le	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dramatic	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dramatic	det
9	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sǐ	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 driving	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 driving	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 driving	aux
13	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 dramatic	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 driving	obj
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 driving	xcomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 mad	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 driving	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
19	sǐ	sǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 used	nsubj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 death	punct
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sǐ	appos
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 death	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 used	aux:pass
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dramatic	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 really	case
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 really	punct
27	really	really	ADV	_	29 really	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 really	punct
29	really	really	ADV	_	24 used	advmod
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 really	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tired	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 tired	mark
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 le	case
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 le	punct
35	lèi	lèi	X	Foreign=Yes	37 le	dep
36	sǐ	sǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 le	compound
37	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tired	obl
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 le	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tired	punct
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tired	advmod
41	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 used	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dramatic	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sǐ in a quote	past	qì	wǒ le		tree rules
2	is	present	qì not said here		dramatic property	tree rules
3	drive in a quote	present · progressive	shēngqì	shēngqì	mad property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory
4	use	present · passive		sǐ		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: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 ×2, 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.

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