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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word ladder, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:056-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders.lesson:10 # text = A word ladder changes exactly one letter per step, and every step must be a real word: HEAD, HEAL, TEAL, TELL, TALL, TAIL. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 056-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 3 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 8 per per ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 HEAD head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 HEAL HEAL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 TEAL teal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 TELL tell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 TALL tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 TAIL tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | a word ladder | one letter | | | | per step | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | must | every step | a real word | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:056-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders.lesson:10`. **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 ×3, 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. 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