A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 14

In Scots, «dreich» means dull, grey and wet, «wee» means little and «the day» means today; «a wee bit dreich» in a storm means terrible weather, so the ferry is probably cancelled.

Who acts: dreich, wee, day · What happens: mean, cancel · To what, where: terrible weather, ferry

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 (dreich, wee, day), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Scots	case
2	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dreich	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 dreich	punct
5	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 dreich	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grey	punct
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dull	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wet	cc
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dull	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wee	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 wee	punct
15	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 wee	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 means	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 means	cc
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 day	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 day	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	parataxis
25	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obl:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dreich	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 dreich	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dreich	det
29	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dreich	amod
30	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dreich	compound
31	dreich	dreich	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	conj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 dreich	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 storm	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 storm	det
35	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dreich	nmod
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dreich	advcl
37	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 weather	amod
38	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cancelled	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	45 cancelled	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ferry	det
42	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cancelled	nsubj:pass
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 cancelled	aux:pass
44	probably	probably	ADV	_	45 cancelled	advmod
45	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 means	parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	dreich			in Scots; dull property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scot=Attribute
2	mean	present	wee			little property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	the day		today		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	dreich not said here	terrible weather			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic
5	cancel	present · passive		the ferry		probably property	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:language:049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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