Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 4

People say "wǒ méi shì" — I'm fine — even when they are not; if your friend's face says otherwise, stay with him.

Who acts: People, I · What happens: say, be, not be, stay · 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 (People, I), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wǒ	punct
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shì	discourse
5	méi	méi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wǒ	flat:foreign
6	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 shì	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fine	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	conj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	24 says	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 says	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 says	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 says	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 says	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 not	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 says	mark
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 face	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 friend	case
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	parataxis
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	24 says	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stay	punct
27	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 says	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stay	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	People		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I	fine property	tree rules
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	People	otherwise, say property	tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	People not said here	with friend	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location

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:4.

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): no change. 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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