Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 0
Riddles play with double meanings: "keys" can open locks, or be the black and white keys of a piano, and the riddle wants you to switch from one meaning to the other.
Who acts: Riddles, keys, riddle, you · What happens: play, open, be, want, switch · To what, where: locks, black keys, you, one meaning
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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 (Riddles, keys, riddle, you), 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 | Riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 play | nsubj |
| 2 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 meanings | case |
| 4 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meanings | amod |
| 5 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 play | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 keys | punct |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 keys | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | aux |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 play | parataxis |
| 12 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keys | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 keys | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 keys | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 keys | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 keys | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 black | conj |
| 20 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 piano | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piano | det |
| 23 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keys | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wants | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wants | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 riddle | det |
| 27 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wants | nsubj |
| 28 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 play | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 wants | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 switch | mark |
| 31 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wants | xcomp |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 meaning | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 meaning | nummod |
| 34 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 switch | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 other | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 other | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 switch | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 play | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Riddles | with double meanings | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with meaning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | can | keys | locks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | keys not said here | the black keys | of a piano | tree rules | |||
| 4 | want | present | the riddle | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | switch not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | one meaning | to the other result | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from meaning=Initial_State to other=Result |
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:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:0.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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