Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 0

Grammar puzzles are like maths puzzles with words: each has an exact answer, and the trick is to look at the job each word does in this sentence, not at what it usually is.

Who acts: Grammar puzzles, each, trick, word · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: exact answer, job, sentence

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (Grammar puzzles, each, trick, word), 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	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puzzles	compound
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 maths	case
5	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	obl
6	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 maths	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 words	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 puzzles	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzles	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 answer	det
13	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 answer	amod
14	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 look	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trick	det
18	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 look	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 job	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 job	det
24	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 does	nsubj
27	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 job	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sentence	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 sentence	det
30	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 does	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 what	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 what	advmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 what	case
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 sentence	acl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 is	nsubj
36	usually	usually	ADV	_	37 is	advmod
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 puzzles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	Grammar puzzles			like maths and puzzles with words	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	each	a exact answer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
3	is	present	the trick		the job	look property	tree rules
4	do	present	each word	the job not said here	this sentence		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:0.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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