--- title: In Britain "not too bad" or "a bit low" can hide a lot, and "mardy"… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain "not too bad" or "a bit low" can hide a lot, and "mardy" (Midlands and North) means sulky, while "tamping" (Wales) means furious; tone and face help to read them. Who acts: bad, mardy, tamping, tone. 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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 (bad, mardy, tamping, tone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:15 # text = In Britain "not too bad" or "a bit low" can hide a lot, and "mardy" (Midlands and North) means sulky, while "tamping" (Wales) means furious; tone and face help to read them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:appos 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Midlands midland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 29 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Wales wale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 39 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | can | bad | a lot | | Britain | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Patient in britain=Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | mardy | | | | | sulky *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | tamping and Wales | | | | | furious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | tone and face | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **read** | to-infinitive | tone and face *not said here* | tone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:15`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-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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