--- title: «I'm a bit peckish» means a little hungry, but people often say it t… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm a bit peckish» means a little hungry, but people often say it to sound polite when they are quite hungry. Who acts: grown ups, people. 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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 (grown ups, people), 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:17 # text = «I'm a bit peckish» means a little hungry, but people often say it to sound polite when they are quite hungry. # 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 `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 peckish peckish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 csubj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 20 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 quite quite ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** *in a quote* | present | the grown ups *= up* | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; peckish *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | hungry | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | ferry | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | polite *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | people | | | | | hungry *property* | 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:language:049-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement.lesson:17`. **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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