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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 (Calling, case), 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:7 # text = Calling someone a "nerve-disease" case means nutcase or psycho; it mocks people with real illnesses and is not a funny word. # 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 ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 nutcase nutcase NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 psycho psycho NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 mocks mock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **call** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme case=Result | | 2 | **mean** | present | Calling | nutcase or psycho | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutcase=Topic | | 3 | **mock** | present | case | people | | | | with real illnesses | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | case *not said here* | a funny word | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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 ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/6/) - next →: [Words that hurt — what they mean, neve…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/24-words-that-hurt/)