--- title: Calling someone "waste matter" means useless, a waste of space; it h… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: Calling someone "waste matter" means useless, a waste of space; it hurts a lot, sometimes in online games, and some kids already hear it from strict adults. Who acts: Calling, space, kids. 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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, space, kids), 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:8 # text = Calling someone "waste matter" means useless, a waste of space; it hurts a lot, sometimes in online games, and some kids already hear it from strict adults. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 already already ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Calling | useless | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent useless=Topic | | 3 | **hurt** | present | space | a lot | | online games | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Patient | | 4 | **hear** | present | some kids | lot | | | | from strict adults | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from adult=Source | 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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