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title: "wǒ kùn le" means "I'm sleepy" and the answer is "shuìjiào ba", go t… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: "wǒ kùn le" means "I'm sleepy" and the answer is "shuìjiào ba", go to sleep; you can be lèi without being kùn. Who acts: kùn le, People, answer. 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
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 8

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"wǒ kùn le" means "I'm sleepy" and the answer is "shuìjiào ba", go to sleep; you can be lèi without being kùn.

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**Who acts:** kùn le, People, answer · **What happens:** mean, be, go · **To what, where:** shuìjiào ba, sleep · **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 (kùn le, People, 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:8
# text = "wǒ kùn le" means "I'm sleepy" and the answer is "shuìjiào ba", go to sleep; you can be lèi without being kùn.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	kùn	kùn	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	le	le	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	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	shuìjiào	shuìjiào	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	lèi	lèi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	parataxis	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	kùn	kùn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | kùn le |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | People |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | shuìjiào ba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_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:8`.

**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): 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/).

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