--- title: «This is not ideal» can mean «this is really bad»; on a motorway, a… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: «This is not ideal» can mean «this is really bad»; on a motorway, a family waits behind the barrier, away from the traffic, and does what the grown-ups say. Who acts: This, family, grown ups. 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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 (This, family, grown ups), 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:10 # text = «This is not ideal» can mean «this is really bad»; on a motorway, a family waits behind the barrier, away from the traffic, and does what the grown-ups say. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 ideal ideal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 motorway motorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 barrier barrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | This | | | | | ideal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **wait** | present | a family | | | a motorway | | behind the barrier; away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Location | | 5 | **do** | present | a family *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the grown ups | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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](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:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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