Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 2

The same word can be a cuddle or a punch: who says it, to whom, and with what face decides; shǎguā from Mum to a toddler is almost a hug, xiǎo pàngzi from a granny to a baby is praise, but from one kid to another about their body it hurts.

Who acts: same word, face, shǎguā, xiǎo · What happens: be, say, decide, hurt · To what, where: cuddle, word, same word, hug · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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 (same word, face, shǎguā, xiǎo), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuddle	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cuddle	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cuddle	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cuddle	det
7	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 punch	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 punch	det
10	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cuddle	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 word	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whom	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 says	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 decides	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decides	cc
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 decides	mark
21	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	22 face	det
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decides	nsubj
23	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 hug	punct
25	shǎguā	shǎguā	X	Foreign=Yes	34 hug	nsubj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Mum	case
27	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shǎguā	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 toddler	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 toddler	det
30	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mum	nmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hug	cop
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 hug	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hug	det
34	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decides	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 xiǎo	punct
36	xiǎo	xiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	45 praise	nsubj
37	pàngzi	pàngzi	X	Foreign=Yes	36 xiǎo	flat
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 granny	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 granny	det
40	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pàngzi	nmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	45 praise	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 baby	det
43	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 granny	nmod
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 praise	cop
45	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hug	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 kid	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 kid	cc
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 kid	case
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 kid	nummod
50	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hurts	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 another	case
52	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	50 kid	nmod
53	about	about	ADP	_	55 body	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 body	nmod:poss
55	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 kid	nmod
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 hurts	nsubj
57	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hug	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cuddle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	can	the same word	a cuddle or a punch			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the same word	word	the same word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to whom=Recipient
3	decide	present	what face				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	shǎguā from Mum to a toddler	a hug and praise		almost property	tree rules
5	is	present	xiǎo			to praise	tree rules
6	hurt	present	face			from one kid to another about hug's body	vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from kid=Stimulus

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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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