--- title: Riddles play with double meanings: "keys" can open locks, or be the… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: Riddles play with double meanings: "keys" can open locks, or be the black and white keys of a piano, and the riddle wants you to switch from one meaning to the other. Who acts: Riddles, keys, riddle, you. 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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 (Riddles, keys, riddle, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:0 # text = Riddles play with double meanings: "keys" can open locks, or be the black and white keys of a piano, and the riddle wants you to switch from one meaning to the other. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Riddles riddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Riddles | | | | | with double meanings | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with meaning=Theme | | 2 | **open** | can | keys | locks | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | infinitive | keys *not said here* | the black keys | | | | of a piano | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | present | the riddle | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **switch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | one meaning | | to the other *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from meaning=Initial\_State to other=Result | 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:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:0`. **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, 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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