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title: You walk into Lín's kitchen after school and say "wǒ è le" — "waw UH… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: You walk into Lín's kitchen after school and say "wǒ è le" — "waw UH luh", I'm hungry — and his mum is delighted: feeding a hungry child is her favourite job. Who acts: You, I, mum, feeding. A sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school 
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 0

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You walk into Lín's kitchen after school and say "wǒ è le" — "waw UH luh", I'm hungry — and his mum is delighted: feeding a hungry child is her favourite job.

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**Who acts:** You, I, mum, feeding · **What happens:** walk, say, be, feed · **To what, where:** kitchen, wǒ, hungry child, favourite job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 (You, I, mum, feeding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:0
# text = You walk into Lín's kitchen after school and say "wǒ è le" — "waw UH luh", I'm hungry — and his mum is delighted: feeding a hungry child is her favourite job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Lín	Lín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	_
13	è	è	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
14	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	waw	waw	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	2	discourse	_	_
19	UH	uh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
20	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
33	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	csubj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **walk** | present | You |  |  |  | after school | into Lín's kitchen *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You *not said here* | wǒ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wǒ=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Lín's mum |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feed** | gerund |  |  | a hungry child |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | feeding | child's favourite job |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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