--- title: "Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not": the answer is "ton", which… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: "Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not": the answer is "ton", which reversed spells "not". Who acts: Picture Gran, answer. 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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 (Picture Gran, answer), 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:6 # text = "Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not": the answer is "ton", which reversed spells "not". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Forwards forward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 backwards backward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 reversed reverse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 22 spells spell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 obj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 26 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Picture Gran in Cork *= gran* | Forwards and backwards *not said here* | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | ton | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reverse** | participle · passive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **spell** | present | | | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent not=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:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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