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title: "Slipped away" can also mean left a place quietly, so the rest of th… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Slipped away" can also mean left a place quietly, so the rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is meant. Who acts: rest. 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 c
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 18

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"Slipped away" can also mean left a place quietly, so the rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is meant.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** slip away, mean, leave, tell · **To what, where:** place, you, meaning · **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 (rest), 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:18
# text = "Slipped away" can also mean left a place quietly, so the rest of the sentence tells you which meaning is meant.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **slip away** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  | a place |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the rest of the sentence |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present · passive |  | which meaning |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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**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): no change. **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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