Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 15

Not half!» is old British slang for «yes, very much»; it sounds like a no but means a big yes.

Who acts: half · What happens: be, sound, mean · To what, where: old British slang, big yes

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 (half), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 slang	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 half	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 half	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slang	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slang	amod
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slang	amod
8	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	14 much	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 yes	punct
11	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 much	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	8 slang	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sounds	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sounds	nsubj
18	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slang	parataxis
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 no	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 no	det
21	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sounds	obl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 means	cc
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sounds	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 big	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 yes	amod
26	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slang	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	half	old British slang		tree rules
2	sound in a quote	present	half		like a no	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean in a quote	present	half not said here	big yes		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=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:15.

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, R8-pos-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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