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title: Feelings in Mandarin are short and loud: "shēngqì" (SHUNG-CHEE) is c… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Feelings, shēngqì, rising, hǎo pà. A sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» of the chinese s
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# Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** Feelings, shēngqì, rising, hǎo pà, nánguò · **What happens:** be, woo · **To what, where:** SHUNG cross · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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 (Feelings, shēngqì, rising, hǎo pà), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:016-happy-angry-bored-scared.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 016-happy-angry-bored-scared.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	_	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	SHUNG	SHUNG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
15	CHEE	CHEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	wúliáo	wúliáo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
24	WOO	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	lyow	lyow	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
35	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	dep	_	_
36	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	37	compound	_	_
37	pà	pà	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:outer	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	waw	waw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
42	PAH	pah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	really	really	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	parataxis	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
53	nánguò	nánguò	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=56:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Feelings in Mandarin |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Feelings in Mandarin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | shēngqì | SHUNG cross |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **woo** | infinitive | both rising *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | both rising |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hǎo pà |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | nánguò |  |  |  |  | sad *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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**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:016-happy-angry-bored-scared.lesson:1`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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