--- title: "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsiz… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs. Who acts: Efficiency savings. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/) / 12 # Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 12 "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs. **Who acts:** Efficiency savings · **What happens:** mean, streamline, cut · **To what, where:** budget cuts, jobs · **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 (Efficiency savings), 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:12 # text = "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 streamlining streamline VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rightsizing rightsize NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Efficiency savings | budget cuts | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Topic | | 2 | **streamline** *in a quote* | gerund | Efficiency savings *not said here* | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | Efficiency savings *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **cut** *not said to happen* | gerund | Efficiency savings *not said here* | jobs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | 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:12`. **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, 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. 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