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title: Some words are hurtful or offensive even if the child saying them do… — Rude words at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words are hurtful or offensive even if the child saying them does not know their meaning. Who acts: words, child, teachers. A sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rude words at the table, sentence 19

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Some words are hurtful or offensive even if the child saying them does not know their meaning.

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**Who acts:** words, child, teachers · **What happens:** be, say, not know, mean · **To what, where:** teachers, meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» of the everyday 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 (words, child, teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:19
# text = Some words are hurtful or offensive even if the child saying them does not know their meaning.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some words |  |  |  |  | hurtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the child *not said here* | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | the child | teachers's meaning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mean** |  | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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