Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 7
Downplaying, or understatement, makes something sound smaller than it is, like "it's just a scratch" about a deep cut; when a real problem is downplayed, it is wise to check and tell an adult.
Who acts: something, understatement, adult · What happens: downplay, make, sound, be, check, tell · To what, where: something, scratch, real problem · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (something, understatement, adult), 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 | Downplaying | downplay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 understatement | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 understatement | cc |
| 4 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Downplaying | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 sound | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 is | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 is | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 smaller | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scratch | punct |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 scratch | mark |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 scratch | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 scratch | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scratch | cop |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 scratch | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 scratch | det |
| 20 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Downplaying | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 scratch | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 cut | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cut | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cut | amod |
| 25 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Downplaying | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 downplayed | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 downplayed | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 problem | det |
| 29 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 problem | amod |
| 30 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 downplayed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 downplayed | aux:pass |
| 32 | downplayed | downplay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 wise | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 downplayed | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wise | expl |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wise | cop |
| 36 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 check | mark |
| 38 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 wise | csubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 tell | cc |
| 40 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 check | conj |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 adult | det |
| 42 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tell | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | downplay | gerund | about a deep cut | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | something | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sound | infinitive | something not said here | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | understatement | a scratch | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | downplay | present · passive | a real problem | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | check | to-infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:7.
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, 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.
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