--- title: «I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm happy»; «not too shabby» mean… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm happy»; «not too shabby» means «rather good». Who acts: I, shabby. A sentence of the lesson «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Not unhappy and not half: litotes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/) / 1 # Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 1 «I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm happy»; «not too shabby» means «rather good». **Who acts:** I, shabby · **What happens:** not be, mean, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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 (I, shabby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:1 # text = «I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm happy»; «not too shabby» means «rather good». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 rather rather ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | with that; unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | shabby | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:1`. **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 ×6, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/0/) - next →: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/)