Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 6

"wǒ kě le" means "I'm thirsty", and the answer is "hē shuǐ ba", have some water; kě also turns up in kěyǐ (may, can) and kě'ài (cute).

Who acts: wǒ kě le, People, answer, kě · What happens: mean, be, have, turn up · To what, where: hē shuǐ ba, water, kěyǐ · 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 kě le, People, answer, kě), 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	Foreign=Yes	4 le	compound
3	kě	kě	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 le	compound
4	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 le	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thirsty	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 thirsty	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thirsty	cop
10	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thirsty	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ba	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ba	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 answer	det
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ba	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ba	cop
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 ba	punct
18	hē	hē	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ba	amod
19	shuǐ	shuǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ba	compound
20	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 ba	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ba	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 turns	punct
27	kě	kě	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 turns	nsubj
28	also	also	ADV	_	29 turns	advmod
29	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 turns	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 kěyǐ	case
32	kěyǐ	kěyǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 turns	obl
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 may	punct
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kěyǐ	dep
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 can	punct
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 may	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 can	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cute	cc
39	kě'ài	kě'ài	X	Foreign=Yes	41 cute	dep
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 cute	punct
41	cute	cute	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 can	conj
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 cute	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wǒ kě le				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	People			thirsty property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	the answer	hē shuǐ ba			tree rules
4	have	present	the answer not said here	some water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	turn up	present	kě		kěyǐ		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kěyǐ=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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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