Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 7
Calling someone a "nerve-disease" case means nutcase or psycho; it mocks people with real illnesses and is not a funny word.
Who acts: Calling, case · What happens: call, mean, mock, not be · To what, where: someone, nutcase, people, funny word · 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 (Calling, case), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 disease | punct |
| 5 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disease | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 nerve | punct |
| 7 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 case | compound |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 disease | punct |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nutcase | nutcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 psycho | cc |
| 13 | psycho | psycho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nutcase | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 people | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mocks | nsubj |
| 16 | mocks | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | parataxis |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mocks | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 illnesses | case |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 illnesses | amod |
| 20 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 word | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 word | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 word | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 25 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 word | amod |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mocks | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | someone | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme case=Result | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Calling | nutcase or psycho | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutcase=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mock | present | case | people | with real illnesses | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is a | present | case not said here | a funny word | 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:7.
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): R5-strong ×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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