Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 5
One rude one-word "get lost!" is said like spitting in real fights; it is a real insult, shocking to an elder, and if someone says it to you, walk away and don't say it back.
Who acts: friend, someone · What happens: get, lose, say, spit, be, walk away · To what, where: One rude one word, real fights, real insult, friend, you · 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 (friend, someone), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 word | nummod |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | parataxis |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux:pass |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 spitting | mark |
| 14 | spitting | spit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 spitting | advmod |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fights | amod |
| 17 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spitting | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 insult | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 insult | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 insult | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 insult | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 insult | amod |
| 23 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shocking | punct |
| 25 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 insult | amod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 elder | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 elder | det |
| 28 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shocking | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 says | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 says | cc |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 says | mark |
| 32 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 says | nsubj |
| 33 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 shocking | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 says | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 says | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 walk | punct |
| 38 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 walk | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 say | cc |
| 41 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 43 say | aux |
| 42 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 say | advmod |
| 43 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 walk | conj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 say | obj |
| 45 | back | back | ADV | _ | 43 say | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present · passive | One rude one word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spit | gerund | real fights | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | friend | a real insult | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | friend | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 7 | walk away | infinitive | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not say back speech: assert | infinitive · do-support | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:5.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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