--- title: "xiǎoqìguǐ" means meanie, someone stingy who won't share; it is unfa… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "xiǎoqìguǐ" means meanie, someone stingy who won't share; it is unfair if their family has little money. Who acts: xiǎoqìguǐ, family. 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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 (xiǎoqìguǐ, family), 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:8 # text = "xiǎoqìguǐ" means meanie, someone stingy who won't share; it is unfair if their family has little money. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 xiǎoqìguǐ xiǎoqìguǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 meanie meanie NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 appos _ _ 8 stingy stingy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | xiǎoqìguǐ | meanie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meanie=Topic | | 2 | **not** **share** | future | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | xiǎoqìguǐ | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | friends's family | little money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | 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: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/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/7/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)