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title: "gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rèns… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: "gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng" means "nice to meet you", and "tā bù gāoxìng le" means "he's sulking". Who acts: gāoxìng, rènshi, le. A sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 6

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"gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng" means "nice to meet you", and "tā bù gāoxìng le" means "he's sulking".

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**Who acts:** gāoxìng, rènshi, le · **What happens:** mean, be, grow up, meet, tā, gāoxìng · **To what, where:** you · **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 (gāoxìng, rènshi, le), 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:6
# text = "gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng" means "nice to meet you", and "tā bù gāoxìng le" means "he's sulking".
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	gāoxìng	gāoxìng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	rènshi	rènshi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	nǐ	nǐ	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	hěn	hěn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gāoxìng	gāoxìng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	tā	tā	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	bù	bù	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	gāoxìng	gāoxìng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	sulking	sulk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | gāoxìng |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | gāoxìng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle | gāoxìng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **tā** *in a quote* | past | gāoxìng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gāoxìng** *in a quote* | gerund | gāoxìng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mean** | present | le |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **sulk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | le |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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