--- title: «xiào sǐ wǒ le» («laughing me to death») means «it's really funny»,… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: «xiào sǐ wǒ le» («laughing me to death») means «it's really funny», just like English «I'm dead 💀»; many languages use «death» to mean «very much». Who acts: xiào sǐ, », Ukrainian grandma, many languages. 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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, », Ukrainian grandma, many languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:11 # text = «xiào sǐ wǒ le» («laughing me to death») means «it's really funny», just like English «I'm dead 💀»; many languages use «death» to mean «very much». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 2 xiào xiào X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 3 sǐ sǐ X GW _ 15 nsubj _ _ 4 wǒ wǒ ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 20 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 « « PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 💀 💀 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 much much ADV RB _ 40 obj _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 45 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | xiào sǐ wǒ le » *not said here* | a Ukrainian grandma *= grandma* | | | | to death | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | xiào sǐ wǒ le » | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | » | funny » and dead 💀 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a Ukrainian grandma *= grandma* | dead 💀 | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | many languages | death | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient | | 6 | **mean** | to-infinitive | many languages *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic | 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:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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. 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