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title: The rule is tone: a grin and a mate's shoulder bump make a tease; an… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule is tone: a grin and a mate's shoulder bump make a tease; an angry face makes an insult. Who acts: rule, grin, angry face, mate. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only)» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 4

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The rule is tone: a grin and a mate's shoulder bump make a tease; an angry face makes an insult.

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**Who acts:** rule, grin, angry face, mate · **What happens:** be, make, bump · **To what, where:** tone, tease, insult

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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 (rule, grin, angry face, mate), 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:4
# text = The rule is tone: a grin and a mate's shoulder bump make a tease; an angry face makes an insult.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grin	grin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tease	tease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the rule | tone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | a grin and a mate's shoulder bump | a tease |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tease=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present | a angry face | a insult |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset insult=Product |
| 4 | **bump** |  | a mate |  |  |  |  |  | nom bump «state 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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**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): R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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