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title: When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and when he's cross, "bié shēngqì", don't be cross. Who acts: Lín, kind thing, cross. A sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 4

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When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and when he's cross, "bié shēngqì", don't be cross.

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**Who acts:** Lín, kind thing, cross · **What happens:** look, be, bié, do, not be · **To what, where:** zěnme le, shēngqì · **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 (Lín, kind thing, cross), 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:4
# text = When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and when he's cross, "bié shēngqì", don't be cross.
# 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 ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	zěnme	zěnme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
28	bié	bié	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | present | Lín |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the kind thing | zěnme le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Lín |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bié** *in a quote* | infinitive | cross | shēngqì |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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/).

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