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title: "Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots". — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots". Who acts: car rots. 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 8

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"Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots".

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**Who acts:** car rots · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** vegetable CARROT, car

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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 (car rots), 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:8
# text = "Dad's car rots" hides the vegetable CARROT across "car" and "rots".
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
2	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rots	rot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	CARROT	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rots	rot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | car rots | the vegetable CARROT |  | car and rots |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=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:8`.

**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, 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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