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title: Some body words make every playground giggle: pìgu (PEE-goo) is bott… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: Some body words make every playground giggle: pìgu (PEE-goo) is bottom, a childish word, not a rude one; but one word for mouth turns up in a rude "shut up!", so say "bié shuō le" instead. Who acts: body words, playground giggle, one word. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the chinese street co
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# The body, sentence 3

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Some body words make every playground giggle: pìgu (PEE-goo) is bottom, a childish word, not a rude one; but one word for mouth turns up in a rude "shut up!", so say "bié shuō le" instead.

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**Who acts:** body words, playground giggle, one word · **What happens:** make, be, turn up, shut up, say · **To what, where:** bottom, rude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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 (body words, playground giggle, one word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:018-the-body.lesson:3
# text = Some body words make every playground giggle: pìgu (PEE-goo) is bottom, a childish word, not a rude one; but one word for mouth turns up in a rude "shut up!", so say "bié shuō le" instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 018-the-body.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	giggle	giggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pìgu	pìgu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	PEE	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	goo	goo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
46	bié	bié	X	FW	_	48	compound	_	_
47	shuō	shuō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	parataxis	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
50	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | some body words |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | every playground giggle and pìgu | bottom and a childish word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn up** | present | one word for mouth |  |  | a rude |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rude=Location |
| 4 | **shut up** *in a quote* | participle | one word for mouth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: express* | infinitive | one word for mouth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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