Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 3
Spin goes both ways: officials make bad news sound small ("efficiency savings" for cuts), while boasters and grumblers make things sound huge ("it took forever"), so the real size is in the plain facts.
Who acts: Spin, officials, bad news, boasters, things, it · What happens: go, make, sound, take, be · To what, where: ways, plain facts · 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 (Spin, officials, bad news, boasters), 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 | Spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ways | det |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goes | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 6 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ways | acl:relcl |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 news | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | xcomp |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 savings | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 savings | punct |
| 14 | efficiency | efficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 savings | compound |
| 15 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 ways | appos |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 savings | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 cuts | case |
| 18 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 savings | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 savings | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 22 | boasters | boaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grumblers | cc |
| 24 | grumblers | grumbler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 boasters | conj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | advcl |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sound | nsubj |
| 27 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sound | xcomp |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 took | nsubj |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | parataxis |
| 33 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 32 took | advmod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 facts | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 facts | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 size | det |
| 39 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 size | amod |
| 40 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 facts | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 facts | cop |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 facts | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 facts | det |
| 44 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 facts | amod |
| 45 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goes | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Spin | both ways | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | officials | both ways not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | infinitive | bad news | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | present | boasters and grumblers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sound | infinitive | things | huge property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | past | it | forever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | present | the real size | the plain facts | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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