--- title: «Well, I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm pleased»; the two negat… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: «Well, I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm pleased»; the two negatives (not, un-) cancel out. Who acts: Mum, two negatives. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 8 «Well, I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm pleased»; the two negatives (not, un-) cancel out. **Who acts:** Mum, two negatives · **What happens:** not be, mean, be, not cancel out · **To what, where:** un · **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 (Mum, two negatives), 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:8 # text = «Well, I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm pleased»; the two negatives (not, un-) cancel out. # 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 ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 negatives negative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 cancel cancel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum | | | | | 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 | Mum | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **cancel out** | infinitive | the two negatives | un | | | | | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/7/) - next →: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/)