Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 19
Not bad at all, kiddo» about 19 out of 20 is understatement (litotes): Dad is proud.
Who acts: 19, Dad · What happens: be · To what, where: understatement
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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 (19, Dad), 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 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bad | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kiddo | punct |
| 6 | kiddo | kiddo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bad | vocative |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 19 | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 19 | advmod |
| 9 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 understatement | nsubj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 20 | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 20 | case |
| 12 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 19 | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 understatement | cop |
| 14 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bad | parataxis |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 litotes | punct |
| 16 | litotes | litote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 understatement | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 litotes | punct |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 proud | punct |
| 19 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proud | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 proud | cop |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bad | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | 19 out 20 | understatement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Dad | proud 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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:19.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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