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title: In a word ladder you change one letter at a time and every step must… — Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a word ladder you change one letter at a time and every step must be a real word: COLD, CORD, CARD, WARD, WARM. Who acts: you, step. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 3

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In a word ladder you change one letter at a time and every step must be a real word: COLD, CORD, CARD, WARD, WARM.

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**Who acts:** you, step · **What happens:** change, be · **To what, where:** one letter, word ladder, real word

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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 (you, 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:3
# text = In a word ladder you change one letter at a time and every step must be a real word: COLD, CORD, CARD, WARD, WARM.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	COLD	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	CORD	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	CARD	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	WARD	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	WARM	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **change** | present | you | one letter |  | a word ladder | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | must | every step | a real word and CARD and WARD |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | every step *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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