--- title: "Not ideal" and "a bit of a pickle" are British understatement for s… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Not ideal" and "a bit of a pickle" are British understatement for something bad, and "a funny turn" can be a faint or a small stroke. Who acts: ideal, funny turn. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ideal, funny turn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:23 # text = "Not ideal" and "a bit of a pickle" are British understatement for something bad, and "a funny turn" can be a faint or a small stroke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 ideal ideal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pickle pickle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nmod _ _ 18 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 faint faint NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | ideal and a bit of a pickle | British understatement and a faint or a small stroke | | | | for something | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | can | a funny turn | a faint or a small stroke | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:23`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/22/) - next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)