A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 12

«Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» shouted over a burst pipe means a big problem: someone should come and help, and the water may need turning off at the stopcock (the tap that shuts off the house's water).

Who acts: someone, water, tap · What happens: shout, mean, come, help, need, turn off · To what, where: Slight problem, burst pipe, big problem, stopcock, water

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 (someone, water, tap), 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 problem	punct
2	Slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 problem	amod
3	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 problem	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 love	punct
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 problem	vocative
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 problem	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 problem	punct
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 problem	acl
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 pipe	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pipe	det
14	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pipe	compound
15	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shouted	obl
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 problem	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 problem	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 problem	amod
19	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 come	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 problem	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 help	cc
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 need	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 need	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 need	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 need	aux
31	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
32	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 need	xcomp
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 turning	compound:prt
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 stopcock	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stopcock	det
36	stopcock	stopcock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turning	obl
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 tap	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tap	det
39	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stopcock	appos
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 shuts	nsubj
41	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 tap	acl:relcl
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 shuts	compound:prt
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 house	det
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 water	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 house	case
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shuts	obj
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 tap	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle		Slight problem in the kitchen not said here	a burst pipe	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present		a big problem		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic
3	come	should	someone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	infinitive	someone not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	need	may	the water			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	turn off not said to happen	gerund	the water not said here		the stopcock	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	shut off	present	the tap	the house's water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=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:12.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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