The body, sentence 4
Never mock the shape of someone's eyes or pull your eyes to "look Chinese": that is racism, not a joke.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: not mock, pull, look, be · To what, where: shape, eyes, racism
This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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 (you, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 mock | advmod |
| 2 | mock | mock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shape | det |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mock | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shape | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 pull | cc |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 mock | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pull | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pull | advcl |
| 16 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 racism | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 racism | cop |
| 21 | racism | racism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mock | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joke | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 joke | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 joke | det |
| 25 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 racism | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mock | imperative | you not said here | the shape of someone's eyes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | infinitive | you not said here | your eyes | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | chinese property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | racism and a joke | tree rules |
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, 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:018-the-body.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): R6-punct-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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