Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 5
"wǒ è le" (waw UH luh) means "I'm hungry"; è falls, while é rising means goose, and the friendly answer is "chī diǎnr dōngxi ba", have something to eat.
Who acts: wǒ, People, é, friendly answer · What happens: mean, be, fall, rise, have, eat · To what, where: goose, chī dōngxi ba, something · 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, People, é, friendly 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 | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | è | è | X | _ | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 4 | le | le | X | _ | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 le | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 waw | punct |
| 7 | waw | waw | X | _ | 2 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 8 | UH | uh | INTJ | _ | 2 wǒ | discourse |
| 9 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 2 wǒ | discourse |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 luh | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hungry | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hungry | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hungry | cop |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hungry | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 falls | punct |
| 18 | è | è | ADV | _ | 19 falls | advmod |
| 19 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rising | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 means | mark |
| 22 | é | é | X | _ | 24 means | nsubj |
| 23 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 é | acl |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 falls | advcl |
| 25 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ba | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ba | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 answer | det |
| 29 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | amod |
| 30 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ba | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 ba | cop |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 ba | punct |
| 33 | chī | chī | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ba | amod |
| 34 | diǎnr | diǎnr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dōngxi | compound |
| 35 | dōngxi | dōngxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ba | compound |
| 36 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 ba | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 ba | advcl |
| 40 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 have | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 eat | mark |
| 42 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 something | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | People | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | wǒ not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | é | goose | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the friendly answer | chī dōngxi ba | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | present | the friendly answer not said here | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 8 | eat | to-infinitive | the friendly answer not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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): 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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