--- title: Fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling your eyes and "go back to C… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: Fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling your eyes and "go back to China" are racist teasing in British playgrounds, not jokes; stand with your friend, don't laugh along, and tell a teacher. Who acts: Fake song Chinese noises, teacher. 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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 (Fake song Chinese noises, teacher), 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:15 # text = Fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling your eyes and "go back to China" are racist teasing in British playgrounds, not jokes; stand with your friend, don't laugh along, and tell a teacher. # 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): no change 1 Fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 2 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 racist racist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 playgrounds playground NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 38 along along ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | gerund | Fake song Chinese noises *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **go back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fake song Chinese noises *not said here* | | China | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to china=Result | | 3 | **is** | present | Fake song Chinese noises | | | | | racist *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tease** | gerund | Fake song Chinese noises *not said here* | jokes | | British playgrounds | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand** | infinitive | Fake song Chinese noises *not said here* | | | | | with your friend | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **laugh** | infinitive · do-support | Fake song Chinese noises *not said here* | | | | | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a teacher | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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