Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 23
"Not ideal" and "a bit of a pickle" are British understatement for something bad, and "a funny turn" can be a faint or a small stroke.
Who acts: ideal, funny turn · What happens: be · To what, where: British understatement, faint
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 (ideal, funny turn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ideal | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ideal | advmod |
| 3 | ideal | ideal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understatement | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ideal | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bit | cc |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ideal | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pickle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pickle | det |
| 11 | pickle | pickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 understatement | cop |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 understatement | amod |
| 15 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 something | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 understatement | nmod |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 faint | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 faint | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 turn | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 turn | det |
| 23 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 turn | amod |
| 24 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 faint | nsubj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 turn | punct |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 faint | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 faint | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 faint | det |
| 29 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understatement | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 stroke | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stroke | det |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stroke | amod |
| 33 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 faint | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 understatement | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ideal and a bit of a pickle | British understatement and a faint or a small stroke | for something | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | can | a funny turn | a faint or a small stroke | tree rules |
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, 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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:23.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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