--- title: Never mock the shape of someone's eyes or pull your eyes to "look Ch… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: Never mock the shape of someone's eyes or pull your eyes to "look Chinese": that is racism, not a joke. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [The body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/) / 4 # The body, sentence 4 Never mock the shape of someone's eyes or pull your eyes to "look Chinese": that is racism, not a joke. **Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** not mock, pull, look, be · **To what, where:** shape, eyes, racism 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 (you, that), 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:4 # text = Never mock the shape of someone's eyes or pull your eyes to "look Chinese": that is racism, not a joke. # 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 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 mock mock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 racism racism NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mock** | imperative | you *not said here* | the shape of someone's eyes | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | chinese *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | racism and a joke | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:018-the-body.lesson:4`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The body, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/3/) - next →: [The body, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/)