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title: If Ming's family is from Sichuan or Hunan, the chilli may get you: «… — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: family, chilli, someone, many families. A sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» of
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# Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** family, chilli, someone, many families, cold drinks · **What happens:** be, get, hand, think · **To what, where:** Sichuan, you, rè shuǐ · **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 (family, chilli, someone, many families), 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:6
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sichuan	Sichuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Hunan	Hunan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	tài	tài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	_
19	là	là	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	spicy	spicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj
33	rè	rè	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
34	shuǐ	shuǐ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
42	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ming's family |  |  | Sichuan or Hunan |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | may | the chilli | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hand** | present | someone | rè shuǐ  warm water | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination shuǐ=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many families |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | cold drinks |  |  |  |  | for the tummy; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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