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title: There is a rude "shut up!" built on a word for mouth; it is very rud… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a rude "shut up!" built on a word for mouth; it is very rude to any grown-up, and the soft way in a friendly argument is "bié shuō le". Who acts: rude, friend, soft way. A sentence of the lesson «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» of the chinese street course of Mova's prim
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# Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said, sentence 6

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There is a rude "shut up!" built on a word for mouth; it is very rude to any grown-up, and the soft way in a friendly argument is "bié shuō le".

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**Who acts:** rude, friend, soft way · **What happens:** be, shut up, build, grow up · **To what, where:** word, bié shuō le

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rude, friend, soft way), 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:6
# text = There is a rude "shut up!" built on a word for mouth; it is very rude to any grown-up, and the soft way in a friendly argument is "bié shuō le".
# 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): R4-particle ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=23:compound
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
37	bié	bié	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	shuō	shuō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a rude |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shut up** *in a quote* | participle | a rude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | participle | a rude *not said here* |  |  | a word for mouth |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on word=Source |
| 4 | **is** | present | friend |  |  |  |  | to any; rude *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the soft way in a friendly argument | bié shuō le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): R4-particle ×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.

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