--- title: "wǒ hǎo pà" means "I'm really scared", with pà falling sharply; the… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: wǒ hǎo pà, zhēn wúliáo, pà, kind answer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wǒ hǎo pà, zhēn wúliáo, pà, kind answer), 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:11 # text = "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. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 wǒ wǒ PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 compound _ _ 3 hǎo hǎo X FW _ 4 compound _ _ 4 pà pà NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 with with SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 pà pà NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 17 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 bié bié ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 pà pà NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 28 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 csubj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 too too ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | wǒ hǎo pà | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | zhēn wúliáo *= wúliáo* | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | pà | | | | | sharply *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the kind answer | bié pà | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support | pà *not said here* | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | pà *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | boys | answer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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. **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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/10/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)