Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 17
"wǒ méi shì" means "I'm OK, I'm fine", but people say it even when they are not fine.
Who acts: wǒ méi shì, wǒ, people · What happens: mean, be, say, not be · To what, where: jiā · 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 méi shì, wǒ, people), 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 | _ | 4 shì | punct |
| 2 | wǒ | wǒ | X | _ | 4 shì | flat:foreign |
| 3 | méi | méi | X | _ | 4 shì | flat:foreign |
| 4 | shì | shì | X | _ | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shì | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 OK | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 OK | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 OK | cop |
| 10 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fine | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fine | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fine | cop |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 OK | parataxis |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 OK | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 say | obj |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 fine | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fine | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fine | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fine | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fine | advmod |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 say | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wǒ méi shì | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | wǒ | ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | wǒ | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | people | jiā | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | People | fine 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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:17.
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, 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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