--- title: Happy, angry, bored, scared — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Happy, angry, bored, scared», a lesson of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your friend Lín bursts out of school shouting "jīntiān hǎo kāixīn!" — "today was so much fun!" — and you hear "KIGH-shin", which means --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/) [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/) / Happy, angry, bored, scared # Happy, angry, bored, scared Lesson 16 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/0/) — Your friend Lín bursts out of school shouting "jīntiān hǎo kāixīn!" — "today was so much fun!" — and you hear "KIGH-shin", which means happy, literally "open heart". - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/1/) — Feelings in Mandarin are short and loud: "shēngqì" (SHUNG-CHEE) is cross, "wúliáo" (WOO-lyow, both rising) is bored, "wǒ hǎo pà" (waw HOW PAH) is "I'm really scared", "nánguò" is sad. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/2/) — Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", but nobody is dying — sǐ (death) just means "really, really", like "lèi sǐ le", dead tired. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/3/) — Some feelings bite if you aim them at a person: "hǎo wúliáo" is "I'm so bored", but "nǐ zhēn wúliáo" is "you're so boring"; and "tǎoyàn!" said laughing is "stop it, you!", said coldly it is real dislike. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/4/) — When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and when he's cross, "bié shēngqì", don't be cross. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/6/) — "gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng" means "nice to meet you", and "tā bù gāoxìng le" means "he's sulking". - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/7/) — "shēngqì" means angry or cross; "nǐ shēngqì le ma?" asks "are you cross?", and "bié shēngqì" (don't be cross) is the first step to making up. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/8/) — "qì sǐ wǒ le" is a dramatic "it's driving me mad!"; sǐ (death) is used for "really, really", as in "lèi sǐ le", dead tired. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/9/) — "wúliáo" (both syllables rising) means bored or boring: "hǎo wúliáo a" is "I'm so bored", and the cheerful answer is "wǒmen wánr ba!", let's play. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/10/) — "nǐ zhēn wúliáo" said about a person is a put-down: "you're so boring" or "you're so silly". - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/11/) — "wǒ hǎo pà" means "I'm really scared", with pà falling sharply; the kind answer is "bié pà", don't be scared, and it is fine for boys to say it too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/12/) — "nánguò" means sad, literally "hard to get through"; it is the right word for a dead pet or a sick granny, and the kind answer is "zěnme le?". - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/13/) — "xiǎng kū" means "I feel like crying"; kū (cry) is high and level, while kǔ (dipping) means bitter, as in "chī kǔ", to put up with hardship. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/14/) — "xǐhuan" means to like: "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ de gǒu" is "I like your dog"; but "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ" between schoolkids sounds like a crush, so to a friend say "nǐ shì wǒ de hǎo péngyou". - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/15/) — "bù xǐhuan" means "don't like"; saying it about food at the friend's table is rude, so say "wǒ bú tài è", I'm not very hungry. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/16/) — "tǎoyàn!" said laughing when teased means "stop it, you!"; said coldly about a person it really means "I can't stand you". - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/17/) — "hǎo xiànmù" means "I'm so jealous" in a nice way, when a friend gets a new toy; "jídù" is the nasty kind of jealousy. - ← previous: [School words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/) - next →: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/) - ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/)