Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 15
Fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling your eyes and "go back to China" are racist teasing in British playgrounds, not jokes; stand with your friend, don't laugh along, and tell a teacher.
Who acts: Fake song Chinese noises, teacher · What happens: pull, go back, be, tease, stand, not laugh · To what, where: eyes, China, jokes, British playgrounds · 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 (Fake song Chinese noises, teacher), 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 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noises | amod |
| 2 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sing | punct |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noises | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chinese | punct |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noises | amod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chinese | punct |
| 8 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 racist | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulling | punct |
| 10 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 noises | acl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pulling | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pulling | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 China | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 racist | cop |
| 21 | racist | racist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 racist | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 playgrounds | case |
| 24 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 playgrounds | amod |
| 25 | playgrounds | playground | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 teasing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 jokes | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 jokes | advmod |
| 28 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 teasing | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stand | punct |
| 30 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 racist | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 friend | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 friend | nmod:poss |
| 33 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stand | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 laugh | punct |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 laugh | aux |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 laugh | advmod |
| 37 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stand | conj |
| 38 | along | along | ADV | _ | 37 laugh | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 tell | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 tell | cc |
| 41 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stand | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 teacher | det |
| 43 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tell | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 racist | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | Fake song Chinese noises not said here | your eyes | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back in a quote | infinitive | Fake song Chinese noises not said here | China | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to china=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Fake song Chinese noises | racist property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tease | gerund | Fake song Chinese noises not said here | jokes | British playgrounds | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | stand | infinitive | Fake song Chinese noises not said here | with your friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not laugh | infinitive · do-support | Fake song Chinese noises not said here | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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