Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 2
A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards (level, noon, Nan), and so can a whole sentence if you ignore spaces, capitals and punctuation: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
Who acts: palindrome, you, sentence, I · What happens: read, ignore, be, see · To what, where: same forwards, spaces, car · 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 (palindrome, you, sentence, I), 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 palindrome | det |
| 2 | palindrome | palindrome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | nsubj |
| 3 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forwards | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forwards | amod |
| 6 | forwards | forward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reads | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 backwards | cc |
| 8 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 6 forwards | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 level | punct |
| 10 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forwards | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 noon | punct |
| 12 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forwards | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Nan | punct |
| 14 | Nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noon | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 noon | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 can | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 can | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 can | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 reads | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sentence | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sentence | amod |
| 22 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 can | nsubj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 ignore | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ignore | nsubj |
| 25 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sentence | acl:relcl |
| 26 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ignore | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 capitals | punct |
| 28 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spaces | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 punctuation | cc |
| 30 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spaces | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 car | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 car | punct |
| 33 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 car | cop |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 car | nsubj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 car | det |
| 36 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ignore | parataxis |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 cat | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 cat | det |
| 39 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 car | conj |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 car | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a palindrome | the same forwards and level | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forward=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ignore a condition, not said to happen | present | you | spaces and capitals and punctuation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | sentence | a car or a cat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | I | a car or a cat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
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:2.
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 ×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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