A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 5

His words are small, but the danger is real: you stay in the car or behind the barrier and do what the grown-ups say.

Who acts: words, danger, you, grown ups, Dad · What happens: be, stay, do, grow, say, word · To what, where: car · 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 (words, danger, you, grown ups), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 real	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 danger	det
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 real	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stay	nsubj
13	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 car	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 car	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 barrier	cc
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 barrier	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 barrier	det
20	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 car	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 say	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ups	det
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ups	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grown	punct
27	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 say	nsubj
28	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 do	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad's words		small property	tree rules
2	is	present	the danger		real property	tree rules
3	stay	present	you	the car or the barrier		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location
4	do	present	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	the grown ups			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	word		Dad			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:5.

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): 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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