A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 6
So with understatement, believe your eyes more than the small words: the snow, the score, the second slice of cake, the foam all over the table.
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, slice · To what, where: eyes, cake
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 understatement | case |
| 3 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 understatement | punct |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 believe | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 more | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snow | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 words | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 score | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 score | det |
| 18 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snow | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slice | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 slice | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 slice | amod |
| 22 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snow | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cake | case |
| 24 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slice | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 foam | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 foam | det |
| 27 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snow | conj |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 table | advmod |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 table | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 table | det |
| 31 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 foam | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | with understatement | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | slice | cake | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:6.
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 ×6, 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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