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title: "duren" means fool or idiot; between close friends it can be a joke,… — Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings… · tree and pragmatics
description: "duren" means fool or idiot; between close friends it can be a joke, but in anger it is a real insult and never said to an adult. Who acts: duren, fool. 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 
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# Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only), sentence 7

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"duren" means fool or idiot; between close friends it can be a joke, but in anger it is a real insult and never said to an adult.

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**Who acts:** duren, fool · **What happens:** mean, be, not say · **To what, where:** fool, joke, real insult, anger, adult · **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 (duren, fool), 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:7
# text = "duren" means fool or idiot; between close friends it can be a joke, but in anger it is a real insult and never said to an adult.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	duren	duren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | duren | fool or idiot |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | can | fool | a joke |  |  |  | between close friends | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | fool | a real insult |  | anger |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | participle | fool *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to adult=Recipient |

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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:ukrainian-street:026-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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