--- title: "wǒ méi shì" means "I'm OK, I'm fine", but people say it even when t… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics description: "wǒ méi shì" means "I'm OK, I'm fine", but people say it even when they are not fine. Who acts: wǒ méi shì, wǒ, people. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Hungry, tired, shy, excited](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/) / 17 # Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 17 "wǒ méi shì" means "I'm OK, I'm fine", but people say it even when they are not fine. **Who acts:** wǒ méi shì, wǒ, people · **What happens:** mean, be, say, not be · **To what, where:** jiā · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wǒ méi shì, wǒ, people), 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:17 # text = "wǒ méi shì" means "I'm OK, I'm fine", but people say it even when they are not fine. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 wǒ wǒ X FW _ 4 flat:foreign _ _ 3 méi méi X FW _ 4 flat:foreign _ _ 4 shì shì X FW _ 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 27 . . 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 méi shì | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wǒ | | | | | ok *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wǒ | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | jiā | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | People | | | | | fine *property* | 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:17`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/16/) - next →: [The body, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/)