Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 15
In Britain "not too bad" or "a bit low" can hide a lot, and "mardy" (Midlands and North) means sulky, while "tamping" (Wales) means furious; tone and face help to read them.
Who acts: bad, mardy, tamping, tone · What happens: hide, mean, help, read · To what, where: lot, Britain, tone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection 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 (bad, mardy, tamping, tone), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bad | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 low | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 low | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 low | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bad | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 low | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hide | aux |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lot | det |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mardy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mardy | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mardy | punct |
| 21 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mardy | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Midlands | punct |
| 24 | Midlands | midland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mardy | appos |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 North | cc |
| 26 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Midlands | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Midlands | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hide | conj |
| 29 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 means | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 means | mark |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 tamping | punct |
| 33 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 tamping | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Wales | punct |
| 36 | Wales | wale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tamping | conj |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Wales | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | advcl |
| 39 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 means | xcomp |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 help | punct |
| 41 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 help | nsubj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 face | cc |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tone | conj |
| 44 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hide | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 read | mark |
| 46 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 help | xcomp |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 read | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | can | bad | a lot | Britain | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Patient in britain=Location | |||
| 2 | mean | present | mardy | sulky property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | tamping and Wales | furious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | present | tone and face | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | read | to-infinitive | tone and face not said here | tone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:15.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-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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