A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 1

British and Irish people are famous for it: «Bit nippy out, innit» in a howling snowstorm, «Not bad at all» about a brilliant cake, «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» while water floods the floor.

Who acts: British people, water · What happens: be, be out, innit, howl, flood · To what, where: howling snowstorm, floor

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 (British people, water), 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	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Irish	cc
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 British	conj
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 famous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 famous	cop
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 famous	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 nippy	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 nippy	punct
11	Bit	Bit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nippy	compound
12	nippy	nippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 famous	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 nippy	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 famous	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 snowstorm	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 snowstorm	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 snowstorm	det
19	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 snowstorm	amod
20	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bad	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 bad	punct
23	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 bad	advmod
24	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snowstorm	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 bad	obl
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 bad	punct
28	about	about	ADP	_	31 cake	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cake	det
30	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cake	amod
31	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bad	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 problem	punct
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 problem	punct
34	Slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 problem	amod
35	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snowstorm	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 kitchen	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 kitchen	det
38	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 problem	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 love	punct
40	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 problem	parataxis
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 snowstorm	punct
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	45 floods	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 floods	mark
44	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 floods	nsubj
45	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 famous	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 floor	det
47	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 floods	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 famous	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	British people		for Understatement; famous property	tree rules
2	be out in a quote		British people not said here			tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	British people not said here	a howling snowstorm and Slight problem in the kitchen		tree rules
4	howl	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	flood	present	water	the floor		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient

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:1.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

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