Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 18

"Slipped away" can also mean left a place quietly, so the rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is meant.

Who acts: rest · What happens: slip away, mean, leave, tell · To what, where: place, you, meaning · 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 (rest), 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 Slipped	punct
2	Slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Slipped	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Slipped	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Slipped	ccomp
8	left	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tells	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	19 tells	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sentence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sentence	det
18	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	nmod
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Slipped	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tells	iobj
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 meaning	det
22	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meant	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 meant	aux:pass
24	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tells	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Slipped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slip away in a quote	past				away property	tree rules
2	mean	can					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	infinitive		a place		quietly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	the rest of the sentence		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	mean	present · passive		which meaning			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, 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:18.

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): no change. 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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