--- title: "xiǎng kū" means "I feel like crying"; kū (cry) is high and level, w… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: boys, kū, kǔ. 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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 (boys, kū, kǔ), 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:13 # text = "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. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 xiǎng xiǎng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 nsubj _ _ 3 kū kū NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 kū kū NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 kǔ kǔ PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 28 bitter bitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 chī chī NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 kǔ kǔ NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 hardship hardship NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **xiǎng** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | boys *= boy* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | boys *= boy* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | kū | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **dip** | gerund | kǔ | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | | bitter | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bitter=Topic | | 8 | **put up** | to-infinitive | kǔ *not said here* | | | | | with hardship | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:13`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/12/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)