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title: In Irish and British English, «it's not a bad day for it» often mean… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics
description: In Irish and British English, «it's not a bad day for it» often means a really lovely day. Who acts: ferry. A sentence of the lesson «A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement, sentence 16

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In Irish and British English, «it's not a bad day for it» often means a really lovely day.

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**Who acts:** ferry · **What happens:** not be, mean · **To what, where:** bad day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ferry), 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:16
# text = In Irish and British English, «it's not a bad day for it» often means a really lovely day.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | ferry | a bad day |  |  |  | for wee | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  | day | in Irish English; often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in english=Attribute |

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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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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