Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 20
"A frank exchange of views" and "a robust discussion" mean an angry argument; "strategic withdrawal" means a retreat.
Who acts: frank exchange, strategic withdrawal · What happens: mean, exchange · To what, where: angry argument, retreat, views
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 (frank exchange, strategic withdrawal), 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 | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 exchange | det |
| 3 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exchange | amod |
| 4 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 views | case |
| 6 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exchange | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exchange | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 discussion | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 discussion | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 discussion | det |
| 11 | robust | robust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 discussion | amod |
| 12 | discussion | discussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exchange | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 discussion | punct |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 argument | det |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 argument | amod |
| 17 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mean | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdrawal | punct |
| 20 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 withdrawal | amod |
| 21 | withdrawal | withdrawal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdrawal | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 retreat | det |
| 25 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | infinitive | a frank exchange of views and a robust discussion | a angry argument | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | strategic withdrawal | a retreat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retreat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exchange in a quote | views | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
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:20.
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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