--- title: «Could be worse» after losing 6–0 is downplaying to cope; it went ba… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics description: «Could be worse» after losing 6–0 is downplaying to cope; it went badly, and «next time» is a kind reply. Who acts: window, next time. A sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/) / 16 # ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 16 «Could be worse» after losing 6–0 is downplaying to cope; it went badly, and «next time» is a kind reply. **Who acts:** window, next time · **What happens:** be, lose, downplay, cope, go · **To what, where:** 6, kind reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 (window, next time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:16 # text = «Could be worse» after losing 6–0 is downplaying to cope; it went badly, and «next time» is a kind reply. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 8 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obj _ _ 9 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 10 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 downplaying downplay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 cope cope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | could | | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | | 6 | | | | – 0 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Eventuality | | 3 | **downplay** | present · progressive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cope** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | past | window | | | | | badly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | next time | a kind reply | | | | | 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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:16`. **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): 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: [★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/14/) - next →: [Counting on and counting back, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/61-counting-on-and-back/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/)