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title: Nobody is dying: in Mandarin, «sǐ le» (dead) just means «very». — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody is dying: in Mandarin, «sǐ le» (dead) just means «very». Who acts: Nobody, sǐ le. A sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 4

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Nobody is dying: in Mandarin, «sǐ le» (dead) just means «very».

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**Who acts:** Nobody, sǐ le · **What happens:** die, mean

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language 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 (Nobody, sǐ le), 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:4
# text = Nobody is dying: in Mandarin, «sǐ le» (dead) just means «very».
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	obj	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present · progressive | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | sǐ le |  |  |  |  | in Mandarin | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot very=Theme in mandarin=Attribute |

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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:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:4`.

**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, 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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