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title: lìhai («LEE-high») means amazing, so good, as in nǐ hǎo lìhai!; it a… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics
description: lìhai («LEE-high») means amazing, so good, as in nǐ hǎo lìhai!; it also means fierce, so a lìhai teacher is a strict one. Who acts: lìhai, reply, lìhai teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 15

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lìhai («LEE-high») means amazing, so good, as in nǐ hǎo lìhai!; it also means fierce, so a lìhai teacher is a strict one.

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**Who acts:** lìhai, reply, lìhai teacher · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** strict one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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 (lìhai, reply, lìhai teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:15
# text = lìhai («LEE-high») means amazing, so good, as in nǐ hǎo lìhai!; it also means fierce, so a lìhai teacher is a strict one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.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): R5-strong ×1
1	lìhai	lìhai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	LEE	LEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	»	»	X	NN	_	1	flat	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nǐ	nǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
18	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	_
19	lìhai	lìhai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lìhai	lìhai	X	FW	_	30	compound	_	_
30	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | lìhai |  |  |  |  | amazing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | reply |  |  |  |  | fierce *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a lìhai teacher | a strict one |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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