--- title: Telling someone to go and die is the harshest thing kids shout, in b… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: Telling someone to go and die is the harshest thing kids shout, in bad quarrels or online games; it is never a joke, and you should tell a trusted grown-up if someone says it to you. Who acts: someone, Telling, kids, thing. 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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 (someone, Telling, kids, thing), 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:11 # text = Telling someone to go and die is the harshest thing kids shout, in bad quarrels or online games; it is never a joke, and you should tell a trusted grown-up if someone says it to you. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 harshest harsh ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nsubj _ _ 38 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advcl 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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* | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **die** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | Telling | the harshest thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | kids | the harshest thing *not said here* | | bad quarrels or online games | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | thing | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | you | a trusted grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient | | 8 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | grown *= grow* | you | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient | 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:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/10/) - next →: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/)