--- title: And in a British playground the worst teasing your Chinese friend he… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: And in a British playground the worst teasing your Chinese friend hears may be in English: fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling eyes, "go back to China" — that is racism, and a real friend stands with him and tells a teacher. Who acts: you, Chinese friend, that, real friend. 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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, Chinese friend, that, real friend), 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:4 # text = And in a British playground the worst teasing your Chinese friend hears may be in English: fake sing-song "Chinese" noises, pulling eyes, "go back to China" — that is racism, and a real friend stands with him and tells 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 appos _ _ 8 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss 10 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 12 hears hear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 racism racism NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | | your Chinese friend | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pull** | gerund | | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go back** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | China | a British playground | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | racism | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | present | a real friend | | | | | with China | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:024-words-that-hurt.lesson:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/3/) - next →: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/)