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title: People say "wǒ méi shì" — I'm fine — even when they are not; if your… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: People say "wǒ méi shì" — I'm fine — even when they are not; if your friend's face says otherwise, stay with him. Who acts: People, I. 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 cla
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 4

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People say "wǒ méi shì" — I'm fine — even when they are not; if your friend's face says otherwise, stay with him.

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**Who acts:** People, I · **What happens:** say, be, not be, stay · **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 (People, I), 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:4
# text = People say "wǒ méi shì" — I'm fine — even when they are not; if your friend's face says otherwise, stay with him.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	discourse	_	_
5	méi	méi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	shì	shì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | People |  |  |  |  | otherwise, say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with friend | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=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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**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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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