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title: "We are reviewing our options" often means nothing has been decided… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "We are reviewing our options" often means nothing has been decided yet. Who acts: We, reviewing, our. 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.
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 15

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"We are reviewing our options" often means nothing has been decided yet.

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**Who acts:** We, reviewing, our · **What happens:** review, mean, decide, opt · **To what, where:** options, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (We, reviewing, our), 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:15
# text = "We are reviewing our options" often means nothing has been decided 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reviewing	review	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	options	option	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **review** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | our options |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | reviewing |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **decide** | present · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  | yet |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **opt** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom option «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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. **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/).

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