Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 3

Picture Mei's family in Beijing: her aunt flops on the sofa and says «lèi sǐ le», «tired to death»; her cousin smells dumplings, «è sǐ le», «hungry to death»; her sister giggles at a cartoon, «xiào sǐ wǒ le», «laughing me to death».

Who acts: Picture family, lèi, cousin, sister · What happens: flop, say, », smell, è, giggle · To what, where: sofa, dumplings, sǐ le », cartoon, Picture family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language 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 (Picture family, lèi, cousin, sister), 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	Picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 family	compound
2	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 family	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mei	case
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flops	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Beijing	case
6	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 family	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 flops	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 aunt	nmod:poss
9	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flops	nsubj
10	flops	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 sofa	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sofa	det
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flops	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 says	cc
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flops	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 »	punct
17	lèi	lèi	NOUN	Foreign=Yes	20 »	nsubj
18	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 »	amod
19	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 »	compound
20	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
22	«	«	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 »	amod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 death	case
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tired	obl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 smells	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cousin	nmod:poss
29	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smells	nsubj
30	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flops	conj
31	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smells	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 è	punct
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 »	punct
34	è	è	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flops	conj
35	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 »	amod
36	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 »	compound
37	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 è	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hungry	punct
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 hungry	punct
40	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 »	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hungry	obl
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 hungry	punct
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 giggles	punct
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 sister	nmod:poss
46	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 giggles	nsubj
47	giggles	giggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flops	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 cartoon	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 cartoon	det
50	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 giggles	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 laughing	punct
52	«	«	PUNCT	_	60 laughing	punct
53	xiào	xiào	X	Foreign=Yes	54 sǐ	cc
54	sǐ	sǐ	X	_	60 laughing	compound
55	wǒ	wǒ	ADP	_	57 »	case
56	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 »	compound
57	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sǐ	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 sǐ	punct
59	«	«	PUNCT	_	60 laughing	punct
60	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 flops	conj
61	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 laughing	obj
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 »	case
63	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 laughing	obl
64	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 laughing	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flop	present	Mei's Picture family in Beijing		the sofa		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	Mei's Picture family in Beijing not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	»		lèi				tree rules
4	smell	present	family's cousin	dumplings			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dumpling=Stimulus
5	è in a quote	past	Mei's Picture family in Beijing not said here	sǐ le »			tree rules
6	giggle	present	family's sister		a cartoon		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh in a quote	gerund	Mei's Picture family in Beijing not said here	Mei's Picture family in Beijing = family		to »; death obl	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:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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