Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 7
An anagram is a word made by rearranging all the letters of another word: "listen" gives "silent", "tinsel" and "enlist"; "night" gives "thing", and "earth" gives "heart".
Who acts: anagram, night, earth · What happens: be, make, rearrange, listen, give, letter · To what, where: word, letters, silent, thing, heart
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 (anagram, night, earth), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 anagram | det |
| 2 | anagram | anagram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 word | acl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 rearranging | mark |
| 8 | rearranging | rearrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 made | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 letters | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 letters | det |
| 11 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rearranging | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letters | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 listen | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 listen | punct |
| 17 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 gives | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 listen | punct |
| 19 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 silent | punct |
| 21 | silent | silent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | obj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 silent | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tinsel | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tinsel | punct |
| 25 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tinsel | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 enlist | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 enlist | punct |
| 29 | enlist | enlist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 enlist | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 gives | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 night | punct |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gives | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 night | punct |
| 35 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gives | conj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 thing | punct |
| 37 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gives | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 thing | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gives | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gives | cc |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 earth | punct |
| 42 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gives | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 earth | punct |
| 44 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gives | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 heart | punct |
| 46 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gives | obj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 heart | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a anagram | a word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a word not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | rearrange | gerund | all letters of another word | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Result | |||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give | present | silent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent silent=Recipient tinsel=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | present | night | thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | present | earth | heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 8 | letter | another word | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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:language:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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