Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 8

Calling someone "waste matter" means useless, a waste of space; it hurts a lot, sometimes in online games, and some kids already hear it from strict adults.

Who acts: Calling, space, kids · What happens: call, mean, hurt, hear · To what, where: someone, useless, lot, online games · 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, space, kids), 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	7 means	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Calling	obj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
4	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	compound
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 waste	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 waste	det
11	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 useless	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 space	case
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waste	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hurts	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hurts	nsubj
16	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lot	det
18	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurts	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 games	punct
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 games	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 games	case
22	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 games	amod
23	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hurts	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hear	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 kids	det
27	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hear	nsubj
28	already	already	ADV	_	29 hear	advmod
29	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hear	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 adults	case
32	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 adults	amod
33	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hear	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			someone			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	mean	present	Calling	useless				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent useless=Topic
3	hurt	present	space	a lot		online games		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Patient
4	hear	present	some kids	lot			from strict adults	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from adult=Source

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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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