Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 6

There is a rude "shut up!" built on a word for mouth; it is very rude to any grown-up, and the soft way in a friendly argument is "bié shuō le".

Who acts: rude, friend, soft way · What happens: be, shut up, build, grow up · To what, where: word, bié shuō le

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 (rude, friend, soft way), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rude	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 is	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct
6	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rude	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shut	compound:prt
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 rude	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rude	punct
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rude	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 word	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rude	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rude	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rude	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 rude	advmod
20	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rude	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 any	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 rude	obl
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 any	acl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 grown	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 le	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 le	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 le	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 argument	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 argument	det
33	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 argument	amod
34	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 le	cop
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 le	punct
37	bié	bié	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 le	amod
38	shuō	shuō	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 le	compound
39	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	conj
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 le	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a rude		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shut up in a quote	participle	a rude not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	build	participle	a rude not said here		a word for mouth		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on word=Source
4	is	present	friend			to any; rude property	tree rules
5	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	present	the soft way in a friendly argument	bié shuō le			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:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:6.

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): R4-particle ×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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