Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 6
"Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not": the answer is "ton", which reversed spells "not".
Who acts: Picture Gran, answer · What happens: be, reverse, spell · To what, where: Forwards, ton
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 (Picture Gran, answer), 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 | _ | 2 Forwards | punct |
| 2 | Forwards | forward | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Forwards | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 backwards | punct |
| 7 | backwards | backward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Forwards | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 " | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 " | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 " | advmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 backwards | punct |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 ton | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 answer | det |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ton | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ton | cop |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ton | punct |
| 17 | ton | ton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Forwards | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ton | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reversed | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 reversed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 spells | advcl |
| 22 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ton | acl:relcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 not | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 spells | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 not | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ton | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Picture Gran in Cork = gran | Forwards and backwards not said here | heavy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the answer | ton | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reverse | participle · passive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | spell | present | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent not=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:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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