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title: A compound word joins two words, like butter + fly = butterfly; a ch… — Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A compound word joins two words, like butter + fly = butterfly; a chain of them can go flyover, overtime, timetable. Who acts: compound word, chain. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 13

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A compound word joins two words, like butter + fly = butterfly; a chain of them can go flyover, overtime, timetable.

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**Who acts:** compound word, chain · **What happens:** join, go · **To what, where:** two words, flyover

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the english 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 (compound word, chain), 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:13
# text = A compound word joins two words, like butter + fly = butterfly; a chain of them can go flyover, overtime, timetable.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	compound	compound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case
11	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	punct	_	_
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	flyover	flyover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	overtime	overtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	timetable	timetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | present | a compound word | two words and butter + fly and butterfly |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | can | a chain of butter | flyover and overtime and timetable |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flyover=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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