Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 12
"Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.
Who acts: Efficiency savings · What happens: mean, streamline, cut · To what, where: budget cuts, jobs · 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 (Efficiency savings), 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 | _ | 3 savings | punct |
| 2 | Efficiency | efficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 savings | compound |
| 3 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 savings | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cuts | compound |
| 7 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 streamlining | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 streamlining | punct |
| 10 | streamlining | streamline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 streamlining | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rightsizing | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 rightsizing | punct |
| 14 | rightsizing | rightsize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 streamlining | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 rightsizing | punct |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 17 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 mean | xcomp |
| 18 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cutting | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Efficiency savings | budget cuts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Topic | ||||
| 2 | streamline in a quote | gerund | Efficiency savings not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Efficiency savings not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cut not said to happen | gerund | Efficiency savings not said here | jobs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product |
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:12.
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 ×1, 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.
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