★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 16

«Could be worse» after losing 6–0 is downplaying to cope; it went badly, and «next time» is a kind reply.

Who acts: window, next time · What happens: be, lose, downplay, cope, go · To what, where: 6, kind reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 (window, next time), 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	_	4 worse	punct
2	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worse	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worse	cop
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 losing	mark
7	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 worse	parataxis
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 losing	obj
9	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	10 0	case
10	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 6	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 downplaying	aux
12	downplaying	downplay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 losing	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cope	mark
14	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 downplaying	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worse	conj
18	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 went	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reply	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reply	cc
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reply	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 reply	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 reply	det
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 reply	amod
28	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worse	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	could			bad property	tree rules
2	lose	gerund		6	– 0	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Eventuality
3	downplay	present · progressive				tree rules
4	cope	to-infinitive				vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	window		badly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be speech: assert	present	next time	a kind reply		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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:16.

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): 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.

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