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title: nǐ shòu le («nee SHOW luh») means you've got thin; it is worry, not… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics
description: nǐ shòu le («nee SHOW luh») means you've got thin; it is worry, not a compliment, and the answer is wǒ hěn hǎo! (I'm fine). Who acts: nǐ, you, SHOW, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 18

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nǐ shòu le («nee SHOW luh») means you've got thin; it is worry, not a compliment, and the answer is wǒ hěn hǎo! (I'm fine).

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**Who acts:** nǐ, you, SHOW, answer, I · **What happens:** mean, get, be · **To what, where:** worry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 (nǐ, you, SHOW, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:18
# text = nǐ shòu le («nee SHOW luh») means you've got thin; it is worry, not a compliment, and the answer is wǒ hěn hǎo! (I'm fine).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.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	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
2	shòu	shòu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
5	«	«	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	nee	nee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	SHOW	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
30	hěn	hěn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	dep	_	_
31	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat	_	_
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | nǐ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | SHOW | worry and a compliment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | wǒ *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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