Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 6

Playing down travels too: a Ukrainian grandma says «Непогано!» (nepohano, «not bad») about a very good mark, and a Japanese neighbour calls her lovely present «just a boring little thing» to be polite.

Who acts: Ukrainian grandma, Japanese neighbour · What happens: play down, say, call, be · To what, where: travels, Непогано, lovely present · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ukrainian grandma, Japanese neighbour), 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	Playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Playing	compound:prt
3	travels	travel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Playing	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grandma	det
7	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grandma	amod
8	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Playing	parataxis
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Непогано	punct
11	Непогано	Непогано	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Непогано	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 Непогано	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 nepohano	punct
15	nepohano	nepohano	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Непогано	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 «	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bad	advmod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nepohano	appos
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 bad	punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 Playing	punct
22	about	about	ADP	_	26 mark	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mark	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mark	amod
26	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 calls	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 calls	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 neighbour	det
30	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 neighbour	amod
31	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calls	nsubj
32	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 present	nmod:poss
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 present	amod
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calls	obj
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 thing	punct
37	just	just	ADV	_	41 thing	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 thing	det
39	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 thing	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 thing	amod
41	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 present	conj
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 thing	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	45 polite	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 polite	cop
45	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 calls	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Playing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play down	gerund		travels		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent travel=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a Ukrainian grandma	Непогано	about a good mark	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent непогано=Topic
3	call	present	a Japanese neighbour	neighbour's lovely present and a boring little thing		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive	a Japanese neighbour not said here		polite 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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