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title: «It's not exactly warm in here» means «it's cold»; «not exactly» plu… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's not exactly warm in here» means «it's cold»; «not exactly» plus a word often means the opposite of that word. Who acts: smile. 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 claus
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# Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 11

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«It's not exactly warm in here» means «it's cold»; «not exactly» plus a word often means the opposite of that word.

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**Who acts:** smile · **What happens:** not be, mean, be · **To what, where:** opposite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (smile), 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:11
# text = «It's not exactly warm in here» means «it's cold»; «not exactly» plus a word often means the opposite of that word.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:csubj
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	25	nsubj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | smile |  |  |  |  | exactly, warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | smile |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  | the opposite of that word |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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