---
title: "Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious"… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious" usually means small too. Who acts: Compact, spacious. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 5

# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious" usually means small too.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Compact, spacious · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** small

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Compact, spacious), 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:5
# text = "Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious" usually means small too.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Compact	compact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	deceptively	deceptively	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Compact | small |  |  |  | in a house advert | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot small=Theme in advert=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | spacious |  |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:5`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/4/)
- next →: [Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/6/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/)

