--- title: Picture Gran in Cork asking, "What word is spelled wrong in every di… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Gran in Cork asking, "What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary, ya eejit?" ("eejit" means idiot, said fondly): the answer is "wrong", because the word "wrong" is always spelled W-R-O-N-G; read a riddle word for word, not just for its sense. 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("eejit" means idiot, said fondly): the answer is "wrong", because the word "wrong" is always spelled W-R-O-N-G; read a riddle word for word, not just for its sense. **Who acts:** Picture Gran, eejit, answer, word · **What happens:** ask, spell, mean, say, be, read · **To what, where:** word, dictionary, idiot, riddle word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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 (Picture Gran, eejit, answer, word), 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:4 # text = Picture Gran in Cork asking, "What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary, ya eejit?" ("eejit" means idiot, said fondly): the answer is "wrong", because the word "wrong" is always spelled W-R-O-N-G; read a riddle word for word, not just for its sense. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Cork Cork PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 12 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ya ya PROPN GW Typo=Yes 11 vocative _ _ 18 eejit eejit X NN _ 17 goeswith _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl:relcl _ _ 26 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 fondly fondly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 because because SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 appos _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 46 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 47 advmod _ _ 47 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 48 W W PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ _ 50 R R PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ _ 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ _ 52 O O ADP IN Abbr=Yes 56 case _ _ 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ _ 54 N N CCONJ CC Abbr=Yes 56 cc _ _ 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=54:punct 56 G G NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 57 ; ; PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 62 for for ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=58:obl 64 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 65 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 69 advmod _ _ 66 just just ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ _ 67 for for ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 69 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=decl | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Picture Gran in Cork *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spell** *in a quote* | present · passive | | what word | | every dictionary | | ya *vocative*; wrong *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in dictionary=Manner | | 3 | **mean** | present | eejit | idiot | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Picture Gran in Cork | | | | | fondly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the answer | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **spell** | present · passive | | the word | | | | always *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme w=Manner | | 7 | **read** | infinitive | | a riddle word | | | | for word; for word's sense | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 8 | **sense** | | word | | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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