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title: tài là le («TIGH LAH luh») means it's too spicy; là is chilli-hot, w… — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: tài là le («TIGH LAH luh») means it's too spicy; là is chilli-hot, while tàng is too hot to touch. Who acts: là le, le, là, tàng. A sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 10

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tài là le («TIGH LAH luh») means it's too spicy; là is chilli-hot, while tàng is too hot to touch.

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**Who acts:** là le, le, là, tàng · **What happens:** mean, be, touch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 (là le, le, là, tàng), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson:10
# text = tài là le («TIGH LAH luh») means it's too spicy; là is chilli-hot, while tàng is too hot to touch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	tài	tài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	là	là	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	TIGH	tigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	LAH	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	7	appos	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	spicy	spicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	là	là	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	chilli	chilli	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	tàng	tàng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | là le |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | le |  |  |  |  | spicy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | là |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | tàng |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **touch** | to-infinitive | tàng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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