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title: Not bad at all, kiddo» about 19 out of 20 is understatement (litotes… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics
description: Not bad at all, kiddo» about 19 out of 20 is understatement (litotes): Dad is proud. Who acts: 19, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 19

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Not bad at all, kiddo» about 19 out of 20 is understatement (litotes): Dad is proud.

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**Who acts:** 19, Dad · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** understatement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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 (19, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:19
# text = Not bad at all, kiddo» about 19 out of 20 is understatement (litotes): Dad is proud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	kiddo	kiddo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	understatement	understatement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	litotes	litote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 19 out 20 | understatement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dad |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |

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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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:19`.

**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, 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/).

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