--- title: Picture one wet bus stop with the bus twenty minutes late: Ruby says… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: Picture one wet bus stop with the bus twenty minutes late: Ruby says «This bus is NEVER coming», her brother Jack says «Oh brilliant, best day ever», and their gran says «Bit of a wait, eh». Who acts: you, Ruby, bus, brother. 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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, Ruby, bus, brother), 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:2 # text = Picture one wet bus stop with the bus twenty minutes late: Ruby says «This bus is NEVER coming», her brother Jack says «Oh brilliant, best day ever», and their gran says «Bit of a wait, eh». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 NEVER never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 28 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 41 Bit Bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 eh eh INTJ UH _ 47 discourse _ _ 47 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 1 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* | one wet bus stop | | | day | with the bus | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent stop=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ruby | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this bus | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ruby's brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | things's gran | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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. 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