--- title: Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!», a lesson of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «good to eat»), said to whoever cooked. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! # Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! Lesson 12 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/0/) — The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «good to eat»), said to whoever cooked. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/1/) — For drinks it changes: bubble tea is hǎo hē, «good to drink». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/2/) — Then the battle begins. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/3/) — Granny puts the best piece in your bowl: «duō chī diǎnr!» (eat some more!). - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/4/) — It is love, not pushing. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/6/) — If Ming's family is from Sichuan or Hunan, the chilli may get you: «tài là le!» (too spicy!), and someone hands you rè shuǐ, warm water — many families think ice-cold drinks are bad for the tummy. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/7/) — At festive dinners even kids raise their juice and shout gānbēi! (cheers!), holding the glass a little lower than an elder's, a small, lovely sign of respect. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/9/) — hǎo hē («HOW HUH») means tasty, for drinks, and soup is often praised the same way, because you drink it; hē (drink) is high, while rising hé means «and» or river. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/10/) — tài là le («TIGH LAH luh») means it's too spicy; là is chilli-hot, while tàng is too hot to touch. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/11/) — tián («tyen?», rising) means sweet; tiān, high and level, is sky or day. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/12/) — wǒ chī bǎo le («waw CHR BAOW luh») means I'm full; hosts offer more several times, so you say it kindly more than once and leave a little food. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/13/) — duō chī diǎnr («DWAW CHR DYAR») means eat some more; a granny putting the best piece in your bowl is honouring you, and you can say xièxie, gòu le (thanks, that's enough). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/14/) — màn man chī («MAHN mahn CHR») is a polite «enjoy your meal» or «take your time», not a comment that you're greedy. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/18/) — kělè («KUH-luh») is cola, a loanword; the kě sounds like the word for thirsty, which makes it a fitting name. - ← previous: [Dinner at the friend's house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/) - next →: [In the playground: come on, your turn!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) - ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/)