--- title: Some feelings bite if you aim them at a person: "hǎo wúliáo" is "I'm… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: Some feelings bite if you aim them at a person: "hǎo wúliáo" is "I'm so bored", but "nǐ zhēn wúliáo" is "you're so boring"; and "tǎoyàn!" said laughing is "stop it, you!", said coldly it is real dislike. Who acts: feelings, you, hǎo, nǐ. 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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 (feelings, you, hǎo, nǐ), 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:3 # text = Some feelings bite if you aim them at a person: "hǎo wúliáo" is "I'm so bored", but "nǐ zhēn wúliáo" is "you're so boring"; and "tǎoyàn!" said laughing is "stop it, you!", said coldly it is real dislike. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 aim aim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 21 nsubj _ _ 14 wúliáo wúliáo X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 35 nsubj _ _ 27 zhēn zhēn X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat _ _ 28 wúliáo wúliáo X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 tǎoyàn tǎoyàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 44 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 xcomp _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 54 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 55 coldly coldly ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 57 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 58 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 dislike dislike NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 ccomp _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | some feelings | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **aim** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | Feelings *= feeling* | | | | at a person | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hǎo | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | nǐ | | | | | boring *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | tǎoyàn | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **laugh** | present · progressive | tǎoyàn *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | tǎoyàn *not said here* | tǎoyàn | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | coldly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | tǎoyàn | real dislike | | | | | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/2/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)