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title: Picture Kai stuck on HEAD to TAIL at HEAL: the next step is TEAL (a… — Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Kai stuck on HEAD to TAIL at HEAL: the next step is TEAL (a blue-green colour, and also a duck), then TELL, TALL, TAIL; good puzzlers try changing each letter position in turn until a real word appears. Who acts: Kai, next step, good puzzlers, real word. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: w
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# Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 4

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Picture Kai stuck on HEAD to TAIL at HEAL: the next step is TEAL (a blue-green colour, and also a duck), then TELL, TALL, TAIL; good puzzlers try changing each letter position in turn until a real word appears.

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**Who acts:** Kai, next step, good puzzlers, real word · **What happens:** stick, be, tell, try, change, appear · **To what, where:** HEAD, TEAL, letter position, turn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kai, next step, good puzzlers, real word), 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:4
# text = Picture Kai stuck on HEAD to TAIL at HEAL: the next step is TEAL (a blue-green colour, and also a duck), then TELL, TALL, TAIL; good puzzlers try changing each letter position in turn until a real word appears.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	dep	_	_
2	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	HEAD	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	TAIL	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	HEAL	HEAL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	TEAL	teal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	TELL	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	TALL	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	TAIL	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	puzzlers	puzzler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	xcomp	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
41	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod
45	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **stick** | past | Kai |  |  | HEAD |  | to TAIL; at HEAL | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at heal=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the next step | TEAL |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | present | good puzzlers |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **change** *not said to happen* | gerund | good puzzlers *not said here* | each letter position |  | turn |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient |
| 6 | **appear** | present | a real word |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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