Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 11

Telling someone to go and die is the harshest thing kids shout, in bad quarrels or online games; it is never a joke, and you should tell a trusted grown-up if someone says it to you.

Who acts: someone, Telling, kids, thing, you · What happens: tell, go, die, be, shout, not be · To what, where: someone, harshest thing, bad quarrels, joke, trusted grown, grown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» 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 (someone, Telling, kids, thing), 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	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thing	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Telling	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 die	cc
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	harshest	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shout	nsubj
12	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quarrels	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 quarrels	case
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 quarrels	amod
16	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shout	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 games	cc
18	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 games	amod
19	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 quarrels	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 joke	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 joke	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 joke	cop
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 joke	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 joke	det
25	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 joke	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 grown	det
32	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 grown	amod
33	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 up	punct
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 grown	compound
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 says	mark
37	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 says	nsubj
38	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 says	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 says	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		someone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	infinitive	someone not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	Telling	the harshest thing			tree rules
5	shout speech: express	present	kids	the harshest thing not said here		bad quarrels or online games	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
6	not is a	present	thing	a joke			tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	should	you	a trusted grown			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient
8	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	someone	grown = grow	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient

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:024-words-that-hurt.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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