Rude words at the table, sentence 19
Some words are hurtful or offensive even if the child saying them does not know their meaning.
Who acts: words, child, teachers · What happens: be, say, not know, mean · To what, where: teachers, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» of the everyday 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 (words, child, teachers), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurtful | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurtful | cop |
| 4 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 offensive | cc |
| 6 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hurtful | conj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | nsubj |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 child | acl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saying | obj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurtful | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 17 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurtful | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some words | hurtful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some words not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the child not said here | teachers = teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | the child | teachers's meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | teachers = teacher | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:everyday:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:19.
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): no change. 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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