--- title: Spin goes both ways: officials make bad news sound small ("efficienc… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Spin goes both ways: officials make bad news sound small ("efficiency savings" for cuts), while boasters and grumblers make things sound huge ("it took forever"), so the real size is in the plain facts. Who acts: Spin, officials, bad news, boasters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spin, officials, bad news, boasters), 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:3 # text = Spin goes both ways: officials make bad news sound small ("efficiency savings" for cuts), while boasters and grumblers make things sound huge ("it took forever"), so the real size is in the plain facts. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 appos _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 boasters boaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 grumblers grumbler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl 26 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp 28 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 33 forever forever ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Spin | both ways | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | officials | both ways *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** | infinitive | bad news | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | present | boasters and grumblers | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | infinitive | things | | | | | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | past | it | | | | | forever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | the real size | | | the plain facts | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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 ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)