--- title: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces,… — Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,… · tree and pragmatics description: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored. Who acts: palindrome, Kai, car. 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, pal…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/) / 9 # Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, sentence 9 "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored. **Who acts:** palindrome, Kai, car · **What happens:** be, see, ignore · **To what, where:** car, cat, palindrome sentence, spaces 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 (palindrome, Kai, car), 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:9 # text = "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence once spaces, capitals and punctuation are ignored. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 palindrome palindrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 once once SCONJ IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 capitals capital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 ignored ignore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | palindrome | a car or a cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Kai | a cat *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | a car or a cat | a palindrome sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ignore** | present · passive | | spaces and capitals and punctuation | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:9`. **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. **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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