Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 2

Picture Mum reading Jack's school report, full of «very good» and «excellent», and saying with a little smile: «Well, I'm not unhappy with that».

Who acts: you, Mum, Jack · What happens: picture, read, say, not be, report · To what, where: Mum, school report, little smile · 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 (you, Mum, Jack), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Mum	acl
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 report	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jack	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 report	compound
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 »	punct
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 »	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 «	case
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 full	obl
14	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mum	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 »	cc
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 excellent	punct
17	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 »	amod
18	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 »	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saying	cc
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 reading	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 smile	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 smile	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 smile	amod
25	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 unhappy	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 unhappy	punct
28	Well	well	INTJ	_	33 unhappy	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Well	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 unhappy	nsubj
31	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 unhappy	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 unhappy	advmod
33	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 smile	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 »	case
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 unhappy	obl
36	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 unhappy	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Mum		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mum=Theme
2	read	gerund	Mum not said here	Jack's school report		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Topic
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Mum not said here		with a little smile	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner
4	not is in a quote	present	Mum	a little smile not said here	with »; a little smile obl; unhappy property	tree rules
5	report		Jack			nom report «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:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:2.

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 ×4, 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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