Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 11
"yabeda" means telltale or snitch, someone who tells the teacher; kids hate being called it.
Who acts: yabeda, kids · What happens: mean, tell, hate, call · To what, where: telltale, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the ukrainian 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 (yabeda, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yabeda | punct |
| 2 | yabeda | yabeda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yabeda | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | telltale | telltale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 snitch | cc |
| 7 | snitch | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 telltale | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 someone | punct |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 telltale | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 tells | nsubj |
| 11 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 15 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hate | nsubj |
| 16 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hate | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | yabeda | telltale or snitch | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telltale=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | hate | present | kids | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call not said to happen | gerund · passive | kids not said here | teacher | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: it=Recipient |
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:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:11.
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): 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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