Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 14

A sentence where every word starts with the same letter is alliteration taken to the limit, like "Six silly snakes slid slowly south, sipping soup."

Who acts: word, sentence, Six silly snakes · What happens: start, be, take, slid, sip · To what, where: alliteration, soup

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 (word, sentence, Six silly snakes), 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 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alliteration	nsubj
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 starts	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starts	nsubj
6	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sentence	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 letter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 letter	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 letter	amod
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starts	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 alliteration	cop
12	alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 alliteration	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 limit	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 limit	det
16	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 alliteration	punct
18	like	like	SCONJ	_	23 slid	mark
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 slid	punct
20	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 snakes	nummod
21	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snakes	amod
22	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slid	nsubj
23	slid	slid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alliteration	advcl
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	25 south	advmod
25	south	south	ADV	_	23 slid	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sipping	punct
27	sipping	sip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 slid	advcl
28	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sipping	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 alliteration	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 alliteration	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start	present	every word		with the same letter	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality
2	is a	present	a sentence	alliteration		tree rules
3	take	participle		alliteration not said here	to the limit result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to limit=Result
4	slid in a quote	past	Six silly snakes		south property	tree rules
5	sip in a quote	gerund	Six silly snakes not said here	soup		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient

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.

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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): 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.

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