--- title: "méi jiàoyǎng" (MAY JYOW-yahng) means badly brought up, no manners;… — Words that hurt — what they mean, never to be said · tree and pragmatics description: "méi jiàoyǎng" (MAY JYOW-yahng) means badly brought up, no manners; it blames the whole family, and if a granny says it about you, you probably forgot to greet her or interrupted — a "duìbuqǐ" fixes it. Who acts: méi jiàoyǎng, jiàoyǎng, granny, you. 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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 (méi jiàoyǎng, jiàoyǎng, granny, you), 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:9 # text = "méi jiàoyǎng" (MAY JYOW-yahng) means badly brought up, no manners; it blames the whole family, and if a granny says it about you, you probably forgot to greet her or interrupted — a "duìbuqǐ" fixes it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 méi méi X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 jiàoyǎng jiàoyǎng NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 6 MAY MAY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 7 JYOW jyow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 yahng yahng NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 probably probably ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 interrupted interrupt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 — - PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 duìbuqǐ duìbuqǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | méi jiàoyǎng | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring up** | participle | | | | | | badly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **blame** | present | jiàoyǎng | the whole family | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a granny | family | | | | about you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **forget** | past | you | | | | | probably *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | granny | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 7 | **interrupt** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fix** | present | a duìbuqǐ | family | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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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