--- title: "àikūguǐ" means crybaby, literally "loves-crying ghost"; it stings,… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "àikūguǐ" means crybaby, literally "loves-crying ghost"; it stings, because a friend who cries needs help, not a name. Who acts: àikūguǐ, ghost, friend. 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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 (àikūguǐ, ghost, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:10 # text = "àikūguǐ" means crybaby, literally "loves-crying ghost"; it stings, because a friend who cries needs help, not a name. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 023-friendly-teasing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 àikūguǐ àikūguǐ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 crybaby crybaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 literally literally ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | àikūguǐ | crybaby | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crybaby=Topic | | 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | àikūguǐ *not said here* | | | | | literally *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | àikūguǐ *not said here* | ghost | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Topic | | 4 | **sting** | present | ghost | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a friend | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | present | a friend | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/9/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)