--- title: «You're not a million miles away» means you are close: a guess of 80… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: «You're not a million miles away» means you are close: a guess of 80 when the jar holds 85 is close. Who acts: You, jar. 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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 17 «You're not a million miles away» means you are close: a guess of 80 when the jar holds 85 is close. **Who acts:** You, jar · **What happens:** be, mean, hold · **To what, where:** 85 · **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 (You, jar), 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:17 # text = «You're not a million miles away» means you are close: a guess of 80 when the jar holds 85 is close. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 10 nsubj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 85 85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | million miles *obl:unmarked*; away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | present | the jar | 85 | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 85=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the jar *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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 ×1, 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: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/16/) - next →: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/)