--- title: "wǒ kě le" means "I'm thirsty", and the answer is "hē shuǐ ba", have… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics description: "wǒ kě le" means "I'm thirsty", and the answer is "hē shuǐ ba", have some water; kě also turns up in kěyǐ (may, can) and kě'ài (cute). Who acts: wǒ kě le, People, answer, kě. 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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 kě le, People, answer, kě), 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:6 # text = "wǒ kě le" means "I'm thirsty", and the answer is "hē shuǐ ba", have some water; kě also turns up in kěyǐ (may, can) and kě'ài (cute). # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 4 compound _ _ 3 kě kě PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 hē hē ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 shuǐ shuǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 kě kě PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 kěyǐ kěyǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 dep _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=34:punct 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 kě'ài kě'ài X FW Foreign=Yes 41 dep _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 cute cute NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 43 . . 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 kě le | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | People | | | | | thirsty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | hē shuǐ ba | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | the answer *not said here* | some water | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 5 | **turn up** | present | kě | | | kěyǐ | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kěyǐ=Location | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/5/) - next →: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/)