Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 16
"A good day to bury bad news" means a day when some bigger story will stop people noticing your bad news.
Who acts: good day, bigger story, people · What happens: bury, mean, stop, notice · To what, where: bad news, people · 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 (good day, bigger story, people), 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 | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bury | mark |
| 6 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 day | acl |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bury | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 stop | advmod |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 story | det |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stop | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | aux |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 day | acl:relcl |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stop | obj |
| 20 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 people | acl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 news | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 news | amod |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noticing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury in a quote | to-infinitive | a good day not said here | bad news | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a good day | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | future | some bigger story | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | notice | gerund | people not said here | your bad news | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
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: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): R6-punct-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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