--- title: "Not our finest hour" and "a learning experience" mean a failure; "a… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Not our finest hour" and "a learning experience" mean a failure; "a mixed bag" means partly good and partly bad. Who acts: finest hour, mixed bag. 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 pr --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 21 "Not our finest hour" and "a learning experience" mean a failure; "a mixed bag" means partly good and partly bad. **Who acts:** finest hour, mixed bag · **What happens:** mean, mix · **To what, where:** failure, good · **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 (finest hour, mixed bag), 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:21 # text = "Not our finest hour" and "a learning experience" mean a failure; "a mixed bag" means partly good and partly bad. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 3 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 experience experience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 failure failure NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 partly partly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 partly partly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | our finest hour and a learning experience | a failure | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Topic | | 2 | **mix** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | a mixed bag | good | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:21`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 ★★★, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/20/) - next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)