--- title: The same word can be a cuddle or a punch: who says it, to whom, and… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: The same word can be a cuddle or a punch: who says it, to whom, and with what face decides; shǎguā from Mum to a toddler is almost a hug, xiǎo pàngzi from a granny to a baby is praise, but from one kid to another about their body it hurts. Who acts: same word, face, shǎguā, xiǎo. 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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 (same word, face, shǎguā, xiǎo), 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:2 # text = The same word can be a cuddle or a punch: who says it, to whom, and with what face decides; shǎguā from Mum to a toddler is almost a hug, xiǎo pàngzi from a granny to a baby is praise, but from one kid to another about their body it hurts. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cuddle cuddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 punch punch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 with with SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int 22 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct 25 shǎguā shǎguā X FW Foreign=Yes 34 nsubj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 xiǎo xiǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 45 nsubj _ _ 37 pàngzi pàngzi X FW Foreign=Yes 36 flat _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 41 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 50 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 50 nmod _ _ 53 about about ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | the same word | a cuddle or a punch | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the same word | word | the same word | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to whom=Recipient | | 3 | **decide** | present | what face | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | shǎguā from Mum to a toddler | a hug and praise | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | xiǎo | | | | | to praise | tree rules | | 6 | **hurt** | present | face | | | | | from one kid to another about hug's body | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from kid=Stimulus | 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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/0/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)