Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 4
"xiào sǐ wǒ le" — "laughing me to death" — is the Chinese LOL; but laughing at a friend who is really hurt is not funny in any language.
Who acts: laughing · What happens: laugh, be, hurt, not be · To what, where: same word, Chinese LOL, friend, language
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 (laughing), 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 | ADV | Typo=Yes | 18 LOL | advmod |
| 4 | wǒ | wǒ | ADP | _ | 5 le | case |
| 5 | le | le | X | _ | 3 sǐ | flat |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 — | punct |
| 7 | — | — | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 le | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 9 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sǐ | acl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 laughing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughing | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sǐ | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 LOL | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Chinese | det |
| 17 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 LOL | amod |
| 18 | LOL | lol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 funny | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 funny | cc |
| 21 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 funny | csubj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laughing | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurt | aux:pass |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 hurt | advmod |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 friend | acl:relcl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 funny | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 funny | advmod |
| 31 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 LOL | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 language | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 language | det |
| 34 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 funny | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 LOL | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | gerund | the same word = word | to death | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Chinese LOL | sǐ property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | at a friend | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hurt | present · passive | a friend | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | laughing | any language | funny 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:023-friendly-teasing.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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