--- title: «Непогано!» (Nepohano) means «not bad» in Ukrainian and, like Britis… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: «Непогано!» (Nepohano) means «not bad» in Ukrainian and, like British «not bad», it often means «good»; litotes exists in Ukrainian too. Who acts: Непогано, eternity, litotes. 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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 (Непогано, eternity, litotes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:13 # text = «Непогано!» (Nepohano) means «not bad» in Ukrainian and, like British «not bad», it often means «good»; litotes exists in Ukrainian too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Непогано Непогано PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Nepohano Nepohano PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 11 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 litotes litote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 exists exist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Непогано | bad | | | | in Ukrainian | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme in ukrainian=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | eternity | good | | | | like British bad; often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic | | 3 | **exist** | present | litotes | | | Ukrainian | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukrainian=Location | 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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