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title: "xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: "xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a birthday, a trip or a festival. Who acts: xīngfèn, bubbly can't sit. A sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 12

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"xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a birthday, a trip or a festival.

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**Who acts:** xīngfèn, bubbly can't sit · **What happens:** mean, feel · **To what, where:** birthday

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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 (xīngfèn, bubbly can't sit), 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:12
# text = "xīngfèn" means excited, the bubbly can't-sit-still feeling before a birthday, a trip or a festival.
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	xīngfèn	xīngfèn	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	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	bubbly	bubbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	can't	can't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | xīngfèn |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | the bubbly can't sit *not said here* |  |  | a birthday and a trip or a festival | still |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent before birthday=Location |

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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): R5-strong ×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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