A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 0
Understatement is the opposite of hyperbole: it makes things sound SMALLER than they are.
Who acts: Understatement, things · What happens: be, make, sound · To what, where: opposite, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement» of the language 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 (Understatement, things), 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 | Understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opposite | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opposite | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 opposite | det |
| 4 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hyperbole | case |
| 6 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opposite | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opposite | parataxis |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | SMALLER | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 sound | xcomp |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 are | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 SMALLER | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opposite | 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 | Understatement | the opposite | of hyperbole | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | Understatement | things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | infinitive | things not said here | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | does | present | things = thing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:language:049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.lesson:0.
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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