--- title: "xiǎo pàngzi" means chubby, "little fatty"; from a granny to a toddl… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "xiǎo pàngzi" means chubby, "little fatty"; from a granny to a toddler it is praise, but from a kid to a kid it hurts, because body teasing is not friendly. Who acts: xiǎo pàngzi, gàozhuàngjīng, body teasing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (xiǎo pàngzi, gàozhuàngjīng, body teasing), 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:13 # text = "xiǎo pàngzi" means chubby, "little fatty"; from a granny to a toddler it is praise, but from a kid to a kid it hurts, because body teasing is not friendly. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 xiǎo xiǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 3 pàngzi pàngzi X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 chubby chubby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fatty fatty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 teasing teasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | xiǎo pàngzi | chubby | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chubby=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | gàozhuàngjīng | praise | | | | from a granny to a toddler | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | present | gàozhuàngjīng | | | | | from a kid to a kid | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from kid=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | body teasing | | | | | friendly *property* | 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. 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