--- title: A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards (level, noon, Nan… — Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,… · tree and pragmatics description: A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards (level, noon, Nan), and so can a whole sentence if you ignore spaces, capitals and punctuation: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" Who acts: palindrome, you, sentence, I. 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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 (palindrome, you, sentence, I), 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:2 # text = A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards (level, noon, Nan), and so can a whole sentence if you ignore spaces, capitals and punctuation: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palindrome palindrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 forwards forward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 backwards backward ADV RB _ 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ignore ignore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 capitals capital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 33 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | a palindrome | the same forwards and level | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forward=Topic | | 2 | **ignore** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | spaces and capitals and punctuation | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | sentence | a car or a cat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | a car or a cat *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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): 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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