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title: "wǒ bù shūfu" means "I don't feel well"; shūfu means comfortable, so… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics
description: "wǒ bù shūfu" means "I don't feel well"; shūfu means comfortable, so "hǎo shūfu" on a soft sofa is "so comfy", and an adult will ask "nǎr bù shūfu?". Who acts: wǒ shūfu, People, hǎo shūfu, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary sc
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# Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 9

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"wǒ bù shūfu" means "I don't feel well"; shūfu means comfortable, so "hǎo shūfu" on a soft sofa is "so comfy", and an adult will ask "nǎr bù shūfu?".

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**Who acts:** wǒ shūfu, People, hǎo shūfu, adult · **What happens:** mean, not feel, be, ask · **To what, where:** nǎr · **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 shūfu, People, hǎo shūfu, adult), 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:9
# text = "wǒ bù shūfu" means "I don't feel well"; shūfu means comfortable, so "hǎo shūfu" on a soft sofa is "so comfy", and an adult will ask "nǎr bù shūfu?".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
3	bù	bù	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shūfu	shūfu	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	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	shūfu	shūfu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	discourse	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	22	compound	_	_
22	shūfu	shūfu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	comfy	comfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	nǎr	nǎr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	bù	bù	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	shūfu	shūfu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
45	.	.	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 | wǒ shūfu |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **feel** *in a quote* | present · do-support | People |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | hǎo shūfu on a soft sofa |  |  |  |  | comfy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | a adult | nǎr and shūfu |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nǎr=Recipient |

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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): R8-pos-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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