--- title: "bù xǐhuan" means "don't like"; saying it about food at the friend's… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: bù xǐhuan, saying, I. 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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 (bù xǐhuan, saying, I), 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:15 # text = "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. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 bù bù X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 xǐhuan xǐhuan X FW _ 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 wǒ wǒ X FW _ 25 parataxis _ _ 28 bú bú X FW _ 30 compound _ _ 29 tài tài X FW _ 30 compound _ _ 30 è è NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **mean** | present | bù xǐhuan | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | nǐ | | the friend's table | | about food | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | saying | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | bù xǐhuan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | I | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/14/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)