--- title: "qì sǐ wǒ le" is a dramatic "it's driving me mad!"; sǐ (death) is us… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "qì sǐ wǒ le" is a dramatic "it's driving me mad!"; sǐ (death) is used for "really, really", as in "lèi sǐ le", dead tired. Who acts: qì, shēngqì. 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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 (qì, shēngqì), 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:8 # text = "qì sǐ wǒ le" is a dramatic "it's driving me mad!"; sǐ (death) is used for "really, really", as in "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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 qì qì X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sǐ sǐ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wǒ wǒ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 sǐ sǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 really really ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 35 lèi lèi X FW Foreign=Yes 37 dep _ _ 36 sǐ sǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:amod 41 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sǐ** *in a quote* | past | qì | wǒ le | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | qì *not said here* | | | | | dramatic *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | shēngqì | shēngqì | | | | mad *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | | sǐ | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/7/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)