A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 17

«I'm a bit peckish» means a little hungry, but people often say it to sound polite when they are quite hungry.

Who acts: grown ups, people · What happens: be, mean, say, sound · To what, where: hungry, ferry · 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 (grown ups, people), 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	_	6 peckish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 peckish	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 peckish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peckish	obl:unmarked
6	peckish	peckish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	csubj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 peckish	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hungry	obl
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 say	advmod
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sound	mark
19	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	xcomp
20	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sound	xcomp
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 hungry	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hungry	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hungry	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 hungry	advmod
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the grown ups = up		a bit obl:unmarked; peckish property	tree rules
2	mean	present		hungry		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	people	ferry	often property	tree rules
4	sound	to-infinitive	people not said here		polite property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	present	people		hungry 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:17.

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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