Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 1

Some riddles hide in the spelling: "ton" backwards is "not", and "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters, even though "shorter" is a longer word.

Who acts: riddles, short, you, shorter · What happens: hide, become, add, be · To what, where: spelling, two letters, longer word

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, short, you, shorter), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 riddles	det
2	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 spelling	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spelling	det
6	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 backwards	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ton	punct
9	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 not	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ton	punct
11	backwards	backward	ADV	_	14 not	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 not	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 "	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 hide	parataxis
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 not	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 becomes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 becomes	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 becomes	nsubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
21	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 shorter	punct
23	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 becomes	xcomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 shorter	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 add	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 add	nsubj
27	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 becomes	advcl
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 letters	nummod
29	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 add	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 word	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	39 word	advmod
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 word	mark
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 shorter	punct
34	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 word	nsubj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 shorter	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 word	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 word	det
38	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 word	amod
39	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 becomes	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	some riddles		the spelling		tree rules
2	become	present	short			short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	add speech: assert	present	you	two letters			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
4	is a	present	shorter	a longer word			tree rules

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:1.

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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