--- title: "wǒ xiǎng nǐ" means "I miss you", said to a friend who moved away or… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics description: "wǒ xiǎng nǐ" means "I miss you", said to a friend who moved away or to grandparents on a video call; the answer is "wǒ yě xiǎng nǐ". Who acts: wǒ, ups, friend, 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 (wǒ, ups, friend, answer), 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:14 # text = "wǒ xiǎng nǐ" means "I miss you", said to a friend who moved away or to grandparents on a video call; the answer is "wǒ yě xiǎng nǐ". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 wǒ wǒ X FW _ 6 nsubj _ _ 3 xiǎng xiǎng X FW _ 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 nǐ nǐ X FW _ 2 flat:foreign _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 wǒ wǒ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 yě yě NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 34 xiǎng xiǎng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 nǐ nǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | wǒ | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | ups *= up* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wǒ *not said here* | | a friend or grandparents on a video call | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | | 4 | **move away** | past | a friend or grandparents on a video call | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | wǒ yě | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **xiǎng** *in a quote* | gerund | wǒ yě *not said here* | nǐ | | | | | tree rules | 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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:14`. **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. **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: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/13/) - next →: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/)