Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 9
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored.
Who acts: palindrome, Kai, car · What happens: be, see, ignore · To what, where: car, cat, palindrome sentence, spaces
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, Kai, car), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 car | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 car | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sentence | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 cat | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 car | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sentence | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sentence | det |
| 15 | palindrome | palindrome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sentence | compound |
| 16 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 18 spaces | case |
| 18 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ignored | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 capitals | punct |
| 20 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spaces | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 punctuation | cc |
| 22 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spaces | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ignored | aux:pass |
| 24 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sentence | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sentence | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | palindrome | a car or a cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Kai | a cat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a car or a cat | a palindrome sentence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ignore | present · passive | spaces and capitals and punctuation | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:9.
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. 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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