--- title: Picture Mum reading Jack's school report, full of «very good» and «e… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Mum reading Jack's school report, full of «very good» and «excellent», and saying with a little smile: «Well, I'm not unhappy with that». Who acts: you, Mum, Jack. 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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, Mum, Jack), 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:2 # text = Picture Mum reading Jack's school report, full of «very good» and «excellent», and saying with a little smile: «Well, I'm not unhappy with that». # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 14 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 28 Well well INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mum | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mum=Theme | | 2 | **read** | gerund | Mum *not said here* | Jack's school report | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Mum *not said here* | | | | | with a little smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum | a little smile *not said here* | | | | with »; a little smile *obl*; unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **report** | | Jack | | | | | | nom report «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:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:2`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/1/) - next →: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/)