--- title: "wúliáo" (both syllables rising) means bored or boring: "hǎo wúliáo… — Happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics description: "wúliáo" (both syllables rising) means bored or boring: "hǎo wúliáo a" is "I'm so bored", and the cheerful answer is "wǒmen wánr ba!", let's play. Who acts: syllables, wúliáo, shēngqì, cheerful answer. 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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 (syllables, wúliáo, shēngqì, cheerful answer), 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:9 # text = "wúliáo" (both syllables rising) means bored or boring: "hǎo wúliáo a" is "I'm so bored", and the cheerful answer is "wǒmen wánr ba!", let's play. # 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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 wúliáo wúliáo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 syllables syllable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 9 obj _ _ 16 wúliáo wúliáo X FW Foreign=Yes 15 flat _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 flat _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wǒmen wǒmen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 appos _ _ 34 wánr wánr ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 39 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 40 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | gerund | both syllables *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | wúliáo and both syllables | hǎo | | | | bored *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hǎo=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | shēngqì | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the cheerful answer | wǒmen and wánr ba | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **play** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/8/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/)