--- title: His words are small, but the danger is real: you stay in the car or… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: His words are small, but the danger is real: you stay in the car or behind the barrier and do what the grown-ups say. Who acts: words, danger, you, 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 (words, danger, you, 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:5 # text = His words are small, but the danger is real: you stay in the car or behind the barrier and do 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 barrier barrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Dad's words | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the danger | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | present | you | | | the car or the barrier | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location | | 4 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the grown ups | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 7 | **word** | | Dad | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:5`. **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): 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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