Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 11

«It's not exactly warm in here» means «it's cold»; «not exactly» plus a word often means the opposite of that word.

Who acts: smile · What happens: not be, mean, be · To what, where: opposite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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 (smile), 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 warm	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warm	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 warm	advmod
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 warm	advmod
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 here	case
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 warm	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 exactly	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 exactly	advmod
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 means	nsubj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 exactly	punct
21	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	23 word	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exactly	conj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 means	advmod
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 opposite	det
27	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 word	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 word	det
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opposite	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	smile		exactly, warm property	tree rules
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	smile		cold property	tree rules
4	mean	present		the opposite of that word	often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic

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:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:11.

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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