--- title: You can tell a real insult by ear even without knowing it: an angry… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: You can tell a real insult by ear even without knowing it: an angry face, a spat-out word, a "your mother" or "his mother" in a hard voice, or a crowd going quiet — that is the moment to walk away, not to answer back. Who acts: You, crowd, that. 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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 (You, crowd, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:1 # text = You can tell a real insult by ear even without knowing it: an angry face, a spat-out word, a "your mother" or "his mother" in a hard voice, or a crowd going quiet — that is the moment to walk away, not to answer back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 024-words-that-hurt.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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 spat spat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 42 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 — - PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 45 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 acl _ _ 51 away away ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 56 back back ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | You | a real insult | | | | by ear | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent insult=Recipient | | 2 | **know** | gerund | You *not said here* | insult | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **go** | gerund | a crowd *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | the moment | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk away** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **answer back** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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