--- title: A few words are borderline: "méi jiàoyǎng" (badly brought up) blames… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: A few words are borderline: "méi jiàoyǎng" (badly brought up) blames a child's whole family, and "lǎowài" (foreigner) is casual and mostly harmless, but some people don't like being labelled. Who acts: few words, méi jiàoyǎng, lǎowài, people. 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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 (few words, méi jiàoyǎng, lǎowài, people), 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:3 # text = A few words are borderline: "méi jiàoyǎng" (badly brought up) blames a child's whole family, and "lǎowài" (foreigner) is casual and mostly harmless, but some people don't like being labelled. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 borderline borderline ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 méi méi X FW _ 9 compound _ _ 9 jiàoyǎng jiàoyǎng NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 16 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lǎowài lǎowài NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 foreigner foreigner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 casual casual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 42 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 labelled label VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj 44 . . 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 | **is** | present | few words | | | | | borderline *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bring up** | participle | | méi jiàoyǎng *not said here* | | | | badly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **blame** | present | méi jiàoyǎng | a child's whole family | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | lǎowài | | | | | casual *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | lǎowài *not said here* | | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | some people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **label** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | some people *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | 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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