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title: On a school report, "natural leader" can mean bossy and "enthusiasti… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: On a school report, "natural leader" can mean bossy and "enthusiastic contributor" can mean shouts out answers without waiting. Who acts: natural leader, enthusiastic contributor, answers. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary s
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 9

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On a school report, "natural leader" can mean bossy and "enthusiastic contributor" can mean shouts out answers without waiting.

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**Who acts:** natural leader, enthusiastic contributor, answers · **What happens:** mean, shout out, wait · **To what, where:** school report · **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 (natural leader, enthusiastic contributor, answers), 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:9
# text = On a school report, "natural leader" can mean bossy and "enthusiastic contributor" can mean shouts out answers without waiting.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	enthusiastic	enthusiastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	contributor	contributor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can | natural leader |  |  | a school report |  | bossy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | can | enthusiastic contributor |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shout out** *speech: express* | present | answers |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | enthusiastic contributor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-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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