--- title: Playing down travels too: a Ukrainian grandma says «Непогано!» (nepo… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: Playing down travels too: a Ukrainian grandma says «Непогано!» (nepohano, «not bad») about a very good mark, and a Japanese neighbour calls her lovely present «just a boring little thing» to be polite. Who acts: Ukrainian grandma, Japanese neighbour. 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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 (Ukrainian grandma, Japanese neighbour), 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:6 # text = Playing down travels too: a Ukrainian grandma says «Непогано!» (nepohano, «not bad») about a very good mark, and a Japanese neighbour calls her lovely present «just a boring little thing» to be polite. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 down down ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 travels travel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 8 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Непогано Непогано PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 nepohano nepohano NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 appos _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 37 just just ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 43 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 45 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 46 . . 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 | **play down** | gerund | | travels | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent travel=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Ukrainian grandma | Непогано | | | | about a good mark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent непогано=Topic | | 3 | **call** | present | a Japanese neighbour | neighbour's lovely present and a boring little thing | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a Japanese neighbour *not said here* | | | | | polite *property* | 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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