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title: "wǒ è le" (waw UH luh) means "I'm hungry"; è falls, while é rising m… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: "wǒ è le" (waw UH luh) means "I'm hungry"; è falls, while é rising means goose, and the friendly answer is "chī diǎnr dōngxi ba", have something to eat. Who acts: wǒ, People, é, friendly answer. A sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary sch
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 5

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"wǒ è le" (waw UH luh) means "I'm hungry"; è falls, while é rising means goose, and the friendly answer is "chī diǎnr dōngxi ba", have something to eat.

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**Who acts:** wǒ, People, é, friendly answer · **What happens:** mean, be, fall, rise, have, eat · **To what, where:** goose, chī dōngxi ba, something · **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 (wǒ, People, é, friendly 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:5
# text = "wǒ è le" (waw UH luh) means "I'm hungry"; è falls, while é rising means goose, and the friendly answer is "chī diǎnr dōngxi ba", have something to eat.
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	_	11	nsubj	_	_
3	è	è	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	waw	waw	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
8	UH	uh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
9	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	è	è	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	é	é	X	FW	_	24	nsubj	_	_
23	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
33	chī	chī	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	diǎnr	diǎnr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	dōngxi	dōngxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | wǒ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | People |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | present | wǒ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | é | goose |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the friendly answer | chī dōngxi ba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present | the friendly answer *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the friendly answer *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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