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title: "xiǎng jiā" means homesick, on a sleepover or a school trip; grandpa… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: "xiǎng jiā" means homesick, on a sleepover or a school trip; grandparents who moved from China may feel xiǎng jiā too. Who acts: grandparents, jiā. 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
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 16

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"xiǎng jiā" means homesick, on a sleepover or a school trip; grandparents who moved from China may feel xiǎng jiā too.

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**Who acts:** grandparents, jiā · **What happens:** xiǎng, mean, move, feel · **To what, where:** sleepover, China, jiā · **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 (grandparents, jiā), 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:16
# text = "xiǎng jiā" means homesick, on a sleepover or a school trip; grandparents who moved from China may feel xiǎng jiā too.
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	xiǎng	xiǎng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
3	jiā	jiā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	homesick	homesick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
23	xiǎng	xiǎng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	jiā	jiā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **xiǎng** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  | a sleepover or a school trip |  | homesick *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | past | grandparents |  |  | China |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from china=Trajectory |
| 4 | **feel** | may | grandparents | jiā |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **xiǎng** | gerund | jiā *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×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.

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