A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 18
Pilots speak calmly so that nobody panics: «a little bit of bumpiness» means strong shaking (turbulence) is coming, and it is safe if you stay belted in.
Who acts: Pilots, nobody, little bit, shaking, bit, you · What happens: speak, panic, mean, come, be, stay · 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 (Pilots, nobody, little bit, shaking), 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 | Pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 panics | mark |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 nobody | det |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 panics | nsubj |
| 7 | panics | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 speak | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bit | amod |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bumpiness | case |
| 14 | bumpiness | bumpiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bit | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 panics | parataxis |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | conj |
| 18 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 turbulence | punct |
| 20 | turbulence | turbulence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaking | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 turbulence | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 means | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 safe | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 safe | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 safe | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | cop |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 speak | conj |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 stay | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 stay | nsubj |
| 31 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | advcl |
| 32 | belted | belt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stay | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 stay | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Pilots | calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | panic | present | nobody | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | a little bit of bumpiness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | present · progressive | shaking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | bit | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stay a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | belt | participle | you not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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, 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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