Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 21
"Not our finest hour" and "a learning experience" mean a failure; "a mixed bag" means partly good and partly bad.
Who acts: finest hour, mixed bag · What happens: mean, mix · To what, where: failure, good · 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 (finest hour, mixed bag), 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 | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hour | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 hour | amod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 experience | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 experience | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 experience | det |
| 10 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 experience | compound |
| 11 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hour | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 experience | punct |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 failure | det |
| 15 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bag | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bag | det |
| 19 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bag | amod |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bag | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | conj |
| 23 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 means | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bad | cc |
| 26 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 27 bad | advmod |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 good | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 | present | our finest hour and a learning experience | a failure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mix in a quote | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | a mixed bag | good | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:21.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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