--- title: "tǎoyàn!" said laughing when teased means "stop it, you!"; said cold… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "tǎoyàn!" said laughing when teased means "stop it, you!"; said coldly about a person it really means "I can't stand you". Who acts: tǎoyàn, it, bù xǐhuan. 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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 (tǎoyàn, it, bù xǐhuan), 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:16 # text = "tǎoyàn!" said laughing when teased means "stop it, you!"; said coldly about a person it really means "I can't stand you". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 tǎoyàn tǎoyàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 teased tease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 coldly coldly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 really really ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tǎoyàn | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | tǎoyàn *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tease** | participle | tǎoyàn *not said here* | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | nǐ | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | about a person; coldly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | it | a person *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | can | bù xǐhuan *= xǐhuan* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:16`. **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): 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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/15/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)