Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 4
Picture Kai stuck on HEAD to TAIL at HEAL: the next step is TEAL (a blue-green colour, and also a duck), then TELL, TALL, TAIL; good puzzlers try changing each letter position in turn until a real word appears.
Who acts: Kai, next step, good puzzlers, real word · What happens: stick, be, tell, try, change, appear · To what, where: HEAD, TEAL, letter position, turn · 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 (Kai, next step, good puzzlers, real word), 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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | dep |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 HEAD | case |
| 5 | HEAD | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 TAIL | case |
| 7 | TAIL | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 HEAL | case |
| 9 | HEAL | HEAL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 TEAL | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 step | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 step | amod |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 TEAL | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 TEAL | cop |
| 15 | TEAL | teal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 colour | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 colour | det |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 colour | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 blue | punct |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 colour | amod |
| 21 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 TEAL | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 duck | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 duck | cc |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 duck | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 duck | det |
| 26 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 colour | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 colour | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 TELL | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | _ | 30 TELL | advmod |
| 30 | TELL | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stuck | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 TALL | punct |
| 32 | TALL | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 TELL | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 TAIL | punct |
| 34 | TAIL | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 TALL | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 changing | punct |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 puzzlers | amod |
| 37 | puzzlers | puzzler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 try | nsubj |
| 38 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | conj |
| 39 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 try | xcomp |
| 40 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 position | det |
| 41 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 position | compound |
| 42 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 changing | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 turn | case |
| 44 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 changing | obl |
| 45 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 49 appears | mark |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 word | det |
| 47 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 word | amod |
| 48 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 appears | nsubj |
| 49 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 changing | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | Kai | HEAD | to TAIL; at HEAL | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at heal=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the next step | TEAL | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Kai not said here | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | present | good puzzlers | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | change not said to happen | gerund | good puzzlers not said here | each letter position | turn | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient | |||
| 6 | appear | present | a real word | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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. 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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