--- title: So with understatement, believe your eyes more than the small words:… — A bit nippy and not ideal: British understatement · tree and pragmatics description: So with understatement, believe your eyes more than the small words: the snow, the score, the second slice of cake, the foam all over the table. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:6 # text = So with understatement, believe your eyes more than the small words: the snow, the score, the second slice of cake, the foam all over the table. # 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 28 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | imperative | you *not said here* | your eyes | | | | with understatement | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 2 | **slice** | | | cake | | | | | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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:6`. **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 ×6, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [A bit nippy and not ideal: British und…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/49-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement/5/) - next →: [A bit nippy and not ideal: British und…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/49-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/49-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement/)