Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 7
The five-letter word "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters.
Who acts: letter word, you · What happens: become, add · To what, where: two letters
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 (letter word, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 letter | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 five | punct |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | compound |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shorter | punct |
| 11 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 becomes | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shorter | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 add | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 add | nsubj |
| 15 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 becomes | advcl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 letters | nummod |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 add | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the letter word | short property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | you | two letters | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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.
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:7.
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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