Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 0

Words are like Lego: you can flip them, shuffle their letters, read them backwards and give them new jobs, and every puzzle has an exact answer you can check letter by letter.

Who acts: Words, you, puzzle · What happens: be, flip, shuffle, read, give, have · To what, where: Words, letters, new jobs, exact answer, letter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» 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 (Words, you, puzzle), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Lego	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Lego	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 Lego	case
4	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 flip	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 flip	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 flip	aux
8	flip	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Lego	parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flip	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shuffle	punct
11	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 flip	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 letters	nmod:poss
13	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shuffle	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
15	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 flip	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	obj
17	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	15 read	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 flip	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 jobs	amod
22	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 puzzle	det
26	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flip	parataxis
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 answer	det
29	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 answer	amod
30	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 check	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 check	aux
33	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 answer	acl:relcl
34	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 check	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 letter	case
36	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 check	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Lego	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Words			like Lego	tree rules
2	flip	can	you	Words = word			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	shuffle	infinitive	you not said here	Words's letters			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
4	read	infinitive	you not said here	letters = letter		backwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	give	infinitive	you not said here	new jobs	letters = letter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient job=Theme
6	have	present	every puzzle	a exact answer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient
7	check	can	you	letter		by letter	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
8	letter		Words = word				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R3-conj-first ×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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