Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 1

Some puzzles play with sound: "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert" says "vair" five times but uses four different words, and only the spelling tells them apart.

Who acts: puzzles, Un, spelling · What happens: play, vert, say, use, tell · To what, where: vers un, vair, four different words, puzzles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the french 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 (puzzles, Un, spelling), 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 puzzles	det
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	nsubj
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 sound	case
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 vert	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 vert	punct
8	Un	Un	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 vert	nsubj
9	ver	ver	ADV	_	10 vert	advmod
10	vert	vert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 play	conj
11	va	VA	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 vers	compound
12	vers	ver	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 un	compound
13	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vert	obj
14	verre	verre	ADV	_	10 vert	advmod
15	vert	vert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vert	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vert	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 vair	punct
19	vair	vair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 vair	punct
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 says	obl:unmarked
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 uses	cc
24	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	conj
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 words	nummod
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 words	amod
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 uses	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tells	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tells	cc
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 spelling	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spelling	det
32	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tells	nsubj
33	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 uses	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tells	obj
35	apart	apart	ADV	_	33 tells	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	some puzzles				with sound	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sound=Theme
2	vert in a quote	infinitive	Un	vers un			ver, verre property	tree rules
3	vert in a quote	infinitive	Un not said here					tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present		vair		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vair=Topic
5	use	present		four different words				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	present	the spelling		puzzles = puzzle		apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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