Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 1

Read like a detective: an advert that says "compact" and "needs some TLC" is telling you small and falling apart, and a report that says "sociable" and "a work in progress" is telling you chatty and not good yet.

Who acts: you, advert, needs, report, work · What happens: read, say, tell, fall apart · To what, where: compact, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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 (you, advert, needs, report), 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	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 detective	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 detective	det
4	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 advert	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 advert	det
7	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 detective	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 advert	acl:relcl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 compact	punct
11	compact	compact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 compact	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 telling	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 needs	punct
15	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 telling	nsubj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 TLC	det
17	TLC	tlc	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needs	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 needs	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 telling	aux
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 telling	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 falling	cc
24	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 telling	conj
25	apart	apart	ADV	_	24 falling	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 report	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 report	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 report	det
29	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 telling	ccomp
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 says	nsubj
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 report	acl:relcl
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 sociable	punct
33	sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 says	ccomp
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 sociable	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 telling	cc
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 work	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 work	det
38	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 telling	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 progress	case
40	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 work	nmod
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 work	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 telling	aux
43	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 says	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 telling	iobj
45	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 telling	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 good	cc
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 good	advmod
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 chatty	conj
49	yet	yet	ADV	_	48 good	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Read	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here			like a detective	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	a advert	compact			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent compact=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	needs		you	small property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	fall apart	gerund	needs not said here			apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	present	a report				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	a work in progress		you	chatty property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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, 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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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