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title: "gàozhuàngjīng" means tattletale; telling a grown-up about real dang… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "gàozhuàngjīng" means tattletale; telling a grown-up about real danger or bullying is right, whatever anyone calls you. Who acts: gàozhuàngjīng, grown, telling, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 12

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"gàozhuàngjīng" means tattletale; telling a grown-up about real danger or bullying is right, whatever anyone calls you.

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**Who acts:** gàozhuàngjīng, grown, telling, anyone · **What happens:** mean, tell, be, call · **To what, where:** tattletale, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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 (gàozhuàngjīng, grown, telling, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:12
# text = "gàozhuàngjīng" means tattletale; telling a grown-up about real danger or bullying is right, whatever anyone calls you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 023-friendly-teasing.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	gàozhuàngjīng	gàozhuàngjīng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tattletale	tattletale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
22	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | gàozhuàngjīng | tattletale |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tattletale=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a grown |  |  |  |  | about real danger or bullying | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about danger=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | telling |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present | anyone | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme you=Result |

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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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**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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:12`.

**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): 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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