--- title: Read like a detective: an advert that says "compact" and "needs some… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Read like a detective: an advert that says "compact" and "needs some TLC" is telling you small and falling apart, and a report that says "sociable" and "a work in progress" is telling you chatty and not good yet. Who acts: you, advert, needs, report. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, advert, needs, report), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:1 # text = Read like a detective: an advert that says "compact" and "needs some TLC" is telling you small and falling apart, and a report that says "sociable" and "a work in progress" is telling you chatty and not good yet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 detective detective NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 compact compact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 TLC tlc NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 25 apart apart ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sociable sociable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ _ 45 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 49 yet yet ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advmod 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | like a detective | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a advert | compact | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent compact=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | needs | | you | | | small *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **fall apart** | gerund | needs *not said here* | | | | | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a report | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | a work in progress | | you | | | chatty *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)