Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 9
"wúliáo" (both syllables rising) means bored or boring: "hǎo wúliáo a" is "I'm so bored", and the cheerful answer is "wǒmen wánr ba!", let's play.
Who acts: syllables, wúliáo, shēngqì, cheerful answer, 's · What happens: rise, mean, be, let, play · To what, where: hǎo, wǒmen, 's · 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 (syllables, wúliáo, shēngqì, cheerful answer), 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 | _ | 2 wúliáo | punct |
| 2 | wúliáo | wúliáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wúliáo | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 syllables | punct |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 syllables | det |
| 6 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wúliáo | conj |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 syllables | acl |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 rising | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | xcomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 boring | cc |
| 12 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bored | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hǎo | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hǎo | punct |
| 15 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 means | obj |
| 16 | wúliáo | wúliáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 hǎo | flat |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bored | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bored | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bored | cop |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bored | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bored | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bored | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 bored | advmod |
| 24 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hǎo | flat |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bored | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wǒmen | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wǒmen | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 answer | det |
| 29 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | amod |
| 30 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wǒmen | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 wǒmen | cop |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wǒmen | punct |
| 33 | wǒmen | wǒmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bored | appos |
| 34 | wánr | wánr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ba | amod |
| 35 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wǒmen | conj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 wǒmen | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wǒmen | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wǒmen | punct |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 bored | parataxis |
| 40 | 's | us | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 let | obj |
| 41 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 let | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | both syllables not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | wúliáo and both syllables | hǎo | bored property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hǎo=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | shēngqì | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the cheerful answer | wǒmen and wánr ba | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play | infinitive | 's not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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.
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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 ×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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