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title: Kids everywhere call each other names, and the same word can be a jo… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kids everywhere call each other names, and the same word can be a joke or a punch: "durnyk", dummy, said laughing between friends is fine; said angrily it hurts, and to an adult it is never okay. Who acts: Kids, same word, laughing, word. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insu
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 0

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Kids everywhere call each other names, and the same word can be a joke or a punch: "durnyk", dummy, said laughing between friends is fine; said angrily it hurts, and to an adult it is never okay.

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**Who acts:** Kids, same word, laughing, word · **What happens:** call, be, say, laugh, hurt, not be · **To what, where:** other names, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the ukrainian 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 (Kids, same word, laughing, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:0
# text = Kids everywhere call each other names, and the same word can be a joke or a punch: "durnyk", dummy, said laughing between friends is fine; said angrily it hurts, and to an adult it is never okay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.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	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	durnyk	durnyk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dummy	dummy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
34	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Kids | each other names |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | can | the same word | a joke or a punch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the same word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | between friends | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | laughing |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **hurt** | present | word |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **not** **is** | present | word |  |  |  |  | to a adult; okay *property* | 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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**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.

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