--- title: "xiào sǐ wǒ le" means "that's hilarious", literally "laughing me to… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "xiào sǐ wǒ le" means "that's hilarious", literally "laughing me to death", after a joke or a funny video. Who acts: xiào sǐ, that. 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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 (xiào sǐ, that), 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:16 # text = "xiào sǐ wǒ le" means "that's hilarious", literally "laughing me to death", after a joke or a funny video. # 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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 xiào xiào X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 3 sǐ sǐ X GW _ 7 nsubj _ _ 4 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 5 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 hilarious hilarious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 literally literally ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | xiào sǐ | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | hilarious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | xiào sǐ *not said here* | adults *= adult* | | | after a joke or a funny video | to death; literally *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/15/) - next →: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)