--- title: «That's not the worst idea you've had» is a dry way of saying «good… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: «That's not the worst idea you've had» is a dry way of saying «good idea»; a smile and «let's do it» show what Dad really means. Who acts: That, you, dry way, smile. 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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 (That, you, dry way, 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:9 # text = «That's not the worst idea you've had» is a dry way of saying «good idea»; a smile and «let's do it» show what Dad really means. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 csubj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 28 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 32 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 34 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the worst idea | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the worst idea *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a dry way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a dry way *not said here* | good idea | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | a smile *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | smile | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **show** | infinitive | a smile | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/8/) - next →: [Not unhappy and not half: litotes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/)