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title: British and Irish people are famous for it: «Bit nippy out, innit» i… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics
description: British and Irish people are famous for it: «Bit nippy out, innit» in a howling snowstorm, «Not bad at all» about a brilliant cake, «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» while water floods the floor. Who acts: British people, water. A sentence of the lesson «A bit nippy and not ideal: British under
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# A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 1

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British and Irish people are famous for it: «Bit nippy out, innit» in a howling snowstorm, «Not bad at all» about a brilliant cake, «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» while water floods the floor.

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**Who acts:** British people, water · **What happens:** be, be out, innit, howl, flood · **To what, where:** howling snowstorm, floor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement» 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 (British people, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.lesson:1
# text = British and Irish people are famous for it: «Bit nippy out, innit» in a howling snowstorm, «Not bad at all» about a brilliant cake, «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» while water floods the floor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Bit	Bit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nippy	nippy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:conj
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	floods	flood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | British people |  |  |  |  | for Understatement; famous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be out** *in a quote* |  | British people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive | British people *not said here* | a howling snowstorm and Slight problem in the kitchen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **howl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flood** | present | water | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient |

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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.

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**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:language:049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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