Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 5
«Not unhappy» is happy; «no small thing» is a big thing; «not a million miles away» is close.
Who acts: unhappy, small thing, million miles · What happens: be · To what, where: big thing
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 (unhappy, small thing, million miles), 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 | _ | 3 unhappy | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 unhappy | advmod |
| 3 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 unhappy | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 « | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 close | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 million | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 million | det |
| 21 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 close | nsubj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 miles | advmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 close | cop |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | 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 | unhappy | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | no small thing | a big thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | million miles | close property | tree rules |
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:5.
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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