Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 13

«Непогано!» (Nepohano) means «not bad» in Ukrainian and, like British «not bad», it often means «good»; litotes exists in Ukrainian too.

Who acts: Непогано, eternity, litotes · What happens: mean, exist · To what, where: bad, good, Ukrainian

This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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 (Непогано, eternity, litotes), 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	_	2 Непогано	punct
2	Непогано	Непогано	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Непогано	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Непогано	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Nepohano	punct
6	Nepohano	Nepohano	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Непогано	appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 Nepohano	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 bad	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Ukrainian	case
14	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 means	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	21 bad	case
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bad	amod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 bad	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bad	advmod
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 means	obl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 bad	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 means	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 means	advmod
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 means	obj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 litotes	punct
31	litotes	litote	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 exists	nsubj
32	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Ukrainian	case
34	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 exists	obl
35	too	too	ADV	_	32 exists	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Непогано	bad		in Ukrainian	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme in ukrainian=Attribute
2	mean	present	eternity	good		like British bad; often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic
3	exist	present	litotes		Ukrainian		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukrainian=Location

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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:13.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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