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title: The five-letter word "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two lett… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics
description: The five-letter word "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters. Who acts: letter word, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 7

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The five-letter word "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters.

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**Who acts:** letter word, you · **What happens:** become, add · **To what, where:** two letters

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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 (letter word, 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:7
# text = The five-letter word "short" becomes "shorter" when you add two letters.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the letter word |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | you | two letters |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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