A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 3
Picture the family car with a flat tyre on the motorway at night, in the rain, and Dad saying «Well.
Who acts: you, Dad · What happens: picture, say · To what, where: family car, motorway · 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 (you, Dad), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 car | compound |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tyre | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tyre | det |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tyre | amod |
| 8 | tyre | tyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 motorway | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 motorway | det |
| 11 | motorway | motorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rain | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rain | det |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saying | cc |
| 20 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | nsubj |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | conj |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 23 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 21 saying | discourse |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | the family car | the motorway | night | with a flat tyre | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent car=Theme | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3.
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 ×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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