--- title: A sentence where every word starts with the same letter is alliterat… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: A sentence where every word starts with the same letter is alliteration taken to the limit, like "Six silly snakes slid slowly south, sipping soup." Who acts: word, sentence, Six silly snakes. 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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 (word, sentence, Six silly snakes), 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:14 # text = A sentence where every word starts with the same letter is alliteration taken to the limit, like "Six silly snakes slid slowly south, sipping soup." # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 slid slid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 24 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 south south ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 sipping sip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | every word | | | | | with the same letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | a sentence | alliteration | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | participle | | alliteration *not said here* | | | | to the limit *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to limit=Result | | 4 | **slid** *in a quote* | past | Six silly snakes | | | | | south *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sip** *in a quote* | gerund | Six silly snakes *not said here* | soup | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | 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:14`. **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): 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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