--- title: Some riddles hide in the spelling: "ton" backwards is "not", and "sh… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: Some riddles hide in the spelling: "ton" backwards is "not", and "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters, even though "shorter" is a longer word. Who acts: riddles, short, you, shorter. 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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, short, you, shorter), 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:1 # text = Some riddles hide in the spelling: "ton" backwards is "not", and "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters, even though "shorter" is a longer word. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 riddles riddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 backwards backward ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 parataxis _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ _ 40 . . 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 | **hide** | present | some riddles | | | the spelling | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | present | short | | | | | short *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | you | two letters | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | shorter | a longer word | | | | | tree rules | 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:1`. **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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