Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 15
A spoonerism swaps the first sounds of two words, as in "a well-boiled icicle" for "a well-oiled bicycle"; it is named after William Spooner, an Oxford teacher who was said to make such slips.
Who acts: spoonerism · What happens: swap, boil, oil, name, say, make · To what, where: first sounds, spoonerism, Oxford teacher, such slips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the english 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 (spoonerism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spoonerism | det |
| 2 | spoonerism | spoonerism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swaps | nsubj |
| 3 | swaps | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sounds | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sounds | amod |
| 6 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swaps | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 words | nummod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sounds | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 icicle | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 icicle | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 icicle | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 icicle | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 icicle | det |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 boiled | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 icicle | amod |
| 18 | icicle | icicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 icicle | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 bicycle | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 bicycle | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bicycle | det |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 oiled | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | oiled | oil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bicycle | amod |
| 26 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 icicle | nmod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 bicycle | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 named | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 named | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 named | aux:pass |
| 31 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 swaps | parataxis |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 William | case |
| 33 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 named | obl |
| 34 | Spooner | Spooner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 William | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 teacher | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 teacher | det |
| 37 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 teacher | compound |
| 38 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 William | appos |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 said | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | aux:pass |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 said | xcomp |
| 44 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 slips | amod |
| 45 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 make | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swaps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | present | a spoonerism | the first sounds of two words and a boiled icicle for a oiled bicycle | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil in a quote | participle | well property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | oil in a quote | participle | well property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | present · passive | spoonerism | after William | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · passive | a Oxford teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | such slips | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slip=Product |
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, 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:english:056-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders.lesson:15.
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): R7-rel-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.
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