A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 10
«This is not ideal» can mean «this is really bad»; on a motorway, a family waits behind the barrier, away from the traffic, and does what the grown-ups say.
Who acts: This, family, grown ups · What happens: not be, mean, be, wait, do, grow · To what, where: motorway · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, family, grown ups), 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 | _ | 5 ideal | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ideal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ideal | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ideal | advmod |
| 5 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 ideal | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 bad | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bad | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bad | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 bad | advmod |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 bad | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 motorway | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 motorway | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 motorway | det |
| 18 | motorway | motorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waits | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waits | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waits | nsubj |
| 22 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | parataxis |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 barrier | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 barrier | det |
| 25 | barrier | barrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waits | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 away | punct |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 waits | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 traffic | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 traffic | det |
| 30 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 away | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 does | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 does | cc |
| 33 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 waits | conj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 say | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ups | det |
| 36 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ups | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 grown | punct |
| 38 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 say | nsubj |
| 39 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 does | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | This | ideal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | can | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | present | a family | a motorway | behind the barrier; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Location | |||
| 5 | do | present | a family not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | the grown ups | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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:10.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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