Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 3
She is pleased, but saying it the long way round sounds modest and a bit funny.
Who acts: shabby, saying · What happens: be, say, sound · To what, where: report · 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 (shabby, saying), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounds | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sounds | cc |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sounds | csubj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saying | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 sounds | advmod |
| 12 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 13 | modest | mod | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sounds | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 funny | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 funny | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 modest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shabby | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | report | the long way obl:unmarked | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | saying | mod, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:3.
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. 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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