Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 5
"Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious" usually means small too.
Who acts: Compact, spacious · What happens: mean · To what, where: small
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 (Compact, spacious), 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 Compact | punct |
| 2 | Compact | compact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Compact | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 advert | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 advert | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advert | compound |
| 7 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spacious | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 means | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 spacious | punct |
| 13 | deceptively | deceptively | ADV | _ | 14 spacious | advmod |
| 14 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 spacious | punct |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 means | advmod |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | conj |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | xcomp |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 means | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | 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 | Compact | small | in a house advert | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot small=Theme in advert=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | spacious | small, usually property | 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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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