Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 14

"Telling porkies", "economical with the truth" and "bending the truth" mean lying; "pulling your leg" means fooling you as a friendly joke.

Who acts: pulling leg · What happens: tell, bend, mean, lie, pull, fool · To what, where: porkies, truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 (pulling leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Telling	punct
2	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 mean	nsubj
3	porkies	porky	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Telling	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Telling	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Telling	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 economical	punct
7	economical	economical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Telling	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 truth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 economical	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 economical	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bending	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bending	punct
14	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Telling	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bending	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bending	punct
18	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 mean	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 leg	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pulling	punct
22	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 leg	amod
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 leg	nmod:poss
24	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 leg	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mean	conj
27	fooling	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 means	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 fooling	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 joke	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 joke	det
31	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 joke	amod
32	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fooling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund		porkies		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient
2	bend in a quote	gerund		the truth		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pull in a quote	gerund				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present	your pulling leg			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	fool not said to happen	gerund	your pulling leg not said here	you	as a friendly joke	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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