Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 2

Picture one wet bus stop with the bus twenty minutes late: Ruby says «This bus is NEVER coming», her brother Jack says «Oh brilliant, best day ever», and their gran says «Bit of a wait, eh».

Who acts: you, Ruby, bus, brother, gran · What happens: picture, say, not come · To what, where: one wet bus stop · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Ruby, bus, brother), 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 stop	nummod
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stop	amod
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	compound
5	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bus	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nmod
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 late	obl:unmarked
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bus	amod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
16	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 bus	det
17	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
19	NEVER	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 coming	advmod
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 says	ccomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 says	nsubj
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 brother	appos
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	parataxis
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	29 brilliant	discourse
29	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 day	punct
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl:unmarked
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 day	advmod
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 day	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 says	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 says	cc
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 gran	nmod:poss
38	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 says	nsubj
39	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 Bit	punct
41	Bit	Bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 says	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 wait	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 wait	det
44	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Bit	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 »	punct
46	eh	eh	INTJ	_	47 »	discourse
47	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 Bit	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	one wet bus stop	day	with the bus	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stop=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Ruby				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not come in a quote	present · progressive	this bus				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Ruby's brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	things's gran				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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