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title: Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", bu… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", but nobody is dying — sǐ (death) just means "really, really", like "lèi sǐ le", dead tired. Who acts: Kids, drama, nobody, sǐ. A sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 2

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Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", but nobody is dying — sǐ (death) just means "really, really", like "lèi sǐ le", dead tired.

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**Who acts:** Kids, drama, nobody, sǐ · **What happens:** love, qì, be, die, mean · **To what, where:** drama, wǒ le · **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 (Kids, drama, nobody, sǐ), 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:2
# text = Kids love drama: "qì sǐ wǒ le!" is literally "angry me to death", but nobody is dying — sǐ (death) just means "really, really", like "lèi sǐ le", dead tired.
# 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 ×3
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
3	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	qì	qì	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	sǐ	sǐ	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:iobj
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sǐ	sǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
33	really	really	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	really	really	ADV	RB	_	31	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
40	lèi	lèi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	42	dep	_	_
41	sǐ	sǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:amod
46	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Kids | drama |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drama=Stimulus |
| 2 | **qì** *in a quote* | past | drama *not said here* | wǒ le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | to death; angry, literally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | present · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | sǐ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×3. **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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