--- title: Pilots speak calmly so that nobody panics: «a little bit of bumpines… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: Pilots speak calmly so that nobody panics: «a little bit of bumpiness» means strong shaking (turbulence) is coming, and it is safe if you stay belted in. Who acts: Pilots, nobody, little bit, shaking. 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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 (Pilots, nobody, little bit, shaking), 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:18 # text = Pilots speak calmly so that nobody panics: «a little bit of bumpiness» means strong shaking (turbulence) is coming, and it is safe if you stay belted in. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pilots pilot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 so so SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 7 panics panic VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 8 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bumpiness bumpiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 18 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 turbulence turbulence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 belted belt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Pilots | | | | | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **panic** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | a little bit of bumpiness | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** | present · progressive | shaking | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | bit | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **belt** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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, 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. 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