A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 16
In Irish and British English, «it's not a bad day for it» often means a really lovely day.
Who acts: ferry · What happens: not be, mean · To what, where: bad day · 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 (ferry), 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 | _ | 5 English | case |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 English | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 British | cc |
| 4 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Irish | conj |
| 5 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 English | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 day | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 day | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 day | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 day | nmod |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 means | advmod |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 lovely | advmod |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | ferry | a bad day | for wee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | day | in Irish English; often property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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