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title: "A frank exchange of views" and "a robust discussion" mean an angry… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "A frank exchange of views" and "a robust discussion" mean an angry argument; "strategic withdrawal" means a retreat. Who acts: frank exchange, strategic withdrawal. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 20

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"A frank exchange of views" and "a robust discussion" mean an angry argument; "strategic withdrawal" means a retreat.

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**Who acts:** frank exchange, strategic withdrawal · **What happens:** mean, exchange · **To what, where:** angry argument, retreat, views

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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 (frank exchange, strategic withdrawal), 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:20
# text = "A frank exchange of views" and "a robust discussion" mean an angry argument; "strategic withdrawal" means a retreat.
# 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	``	_	14	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	frank	frank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	robust	robust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	strategic	strategic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **mean** | infinitive | a frank exchange of views and a robust discussion | a angry argument |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | strategic withdrawal | a retreat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retreat=Topic |
| 3 | **exchange** *in a quote* |  |  | views |  |  |  |  | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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): 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.

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