Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 16
«I wouldn't say no to a biscuit» is a polite yes, so pass the biscuits.
Who acts: dry way · What happens: not say, be, pass · To what, where: biscuit, polite yes, biscuits · 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 (dry way), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 yes | csubj |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | discourse |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 biscuit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 biscuit | det |
| 9 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 yes | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 yes | det |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yes | amod |
| 14 | yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pass | advmod |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 yes | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 biscuits | det |
| 19 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pass | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 yes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | would | a dry way = way | a biscuit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to biscuit=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a polite yes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | the biscuits | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme biscuit=Trajectory |
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:16.
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 ×2, 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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