Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 9

"méi jiàoyǎng" (MAY JYOW-yahng) means badly brought up, no manners; it blames the whole family, and if a granny says it about you, you probably forgot to greet her or interrupted — a "duìbuqǐ" fixes it.

Who acts: méi jiàoyǎng, jiàoyǎng, granny, you, duìbuqǐ · What happens: mean, bring up, blame, say, forget, not greet · To what, where: whole family, family, granny · 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 (méi jiàoyǎng, jiàoyǎng, granny, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jiàoyǎng	punct
2	méi	méi	X	_	3 jiàoyǎng	compound
3	jiàoyǎng	jiàoyǎng	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jiàoyǎng	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 yahng	punct
6	MAY	MAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 yahng	nmod:unmarked
7	JYOW	jyow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yahng	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 yahng	punct
9	yahng	yahng	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jiàoyǎng	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 yahng	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 brought	advmod
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 means	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 brought	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 manners	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 manners	det
17	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 means	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 blames	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 blames	nsubj
20	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 family	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 family	amod
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blames	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 says	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 says	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 granny	det
28	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 says	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 says	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forgot	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 forgot	nsubj
35	probably	probably	ADV	_	36 forgot	advmod
36	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 means	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 greet	mark
38	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 forgot	xcomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 greet	obj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 interrupted	cc
41	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 forgot	conj
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	47 fixes	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 duìbuqǐ	det
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 duìbuqǐ	punct
45	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fixes	nsubj
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 duìbuqǐ	punct
47	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 interrupted	parataxis
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fixes	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	méi jiàoyǎng				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring up	participle				badly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	blame	present	jiàoyǎng	the whole family			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	a granny	family		about you	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	forget	past	you			probably property	tree rules
6	not greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	you not said here		granny		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	interrupt	past	you not said here				tree rules
8	fix	present	a duìbuqǐ	family			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:9.

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 ×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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