Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 16
"xiào sǐ wǒ le" means "that's hilarious", literally "laughing me to death", after a joke or a funny video.
Who acts: xiào sǐ, that · What happens: mean, be, laugh · To what, where: adults · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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 (xiào sǐ, that), 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 | _ | 3 sǐ | punct |
| 2 | xiào | xiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 sǐ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | sǐ | sǐ | X | _ | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 sǐ | flat:foreign |
| 5 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 sǐ | flat:foreign |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sǐ | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hilarious | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hilarious | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hilarious | cop |
| 11 | hilarious | hilarious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hilarious | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughing | punct |
| 14 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 16 laughing | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughing | punct |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 laughing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughing | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughing | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 joke | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 joke | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 joke | det |
| 24 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughing | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 video | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 video | det |
| 27 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 video | amod |
| 28 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joke | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | xiào sǐ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | hilarious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | gerund | xiào sǐ not said here | adults = adult | after a joke or a funny video | to death; literally property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:16.
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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