Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 14

"wǒ xiǎng nǐ" means "I miss you", said to a friend who moved away or to grandparents on a video call; the answer is "wǒ yě xiǎng nǐ".

Who acts: wǒ, ups, friend, answer, wǒ yě · What happens: mean, miss, say, move away, be, xiǎng · To what, where: you, friend, wǒ yě, nǐ · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 (wǒ, ups, friend, 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 wǒ	punct
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	_	6 means	nsubj
3	xiǎng	xiǎng	X	_	2 wǒ	flat:foreign
4	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	2 wǒ	flat:foreign
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nǐ	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 miss	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 miss	nsubj
9	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 miss	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 miss	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 friend	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 moved	nsubj
18	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 friend	acl:relcl
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 moved	advmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 grandparents	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 grandparents	case
22	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 friend	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 call	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 call	det
25	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 call	compound
26	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grandparents	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 yě	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 answer	det
29	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 yě	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 yě	cop
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 yě	punct
32	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 yě	amod
33	yě	yě	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	parataxis
34	xiǎng	xiǎng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 yě	acl
35	nǐ	nǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 xiǎng	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 nǐ	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wǒ				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	miss in a quote	present	ups = up	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	wǒ not said here		a friend or grandparents on a video call		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient
4	move away	past	a friend or grandparents on a video call			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	the answer	wǒ yě			tree rules
6	xiǎng in a quote	gerund	wǒ yě not said here	nǐ			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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:14.

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 ×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.

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