--- title: «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» shouted over a burst pipe mea… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» shouted over a burst pipe means a big problem: someone should come and help, and the water may need turning off at the stopcock (the tap that shuts off the house's water). Who acts: someone, water, tap. 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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 (someone, water, tap), 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:12 # text = «Slight problem in the kitchen, love!» shouted over a burst pipe means a big problem: someone should come and help, and the water may need turning off at the stopcock (the tap that shuts off the house's water). # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 2 Slight slight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 shouted shout VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 32 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 stopcock stopcock NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 48 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | | Slight problem in the kitchen *not said here* | | a burst pipe | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | a big problem | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 3 | **come** | should | someone | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **need** | may | the water | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **turn off** *not said to happen* | gerund | the water *not said here* | | | the stopcock | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **shut off** | present | the tap | the house's water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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:12`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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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