--- title: Some puzzles play with sound: "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert" sa… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some puzzles play with sound: "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert" says "vair" five times but uses four different words, and only the spelling tells them apart. Who acts: puzzles, Un, spelling. 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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 (puzzles, Un, spelling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:1 # text = Some puzzles play with sound: "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert" says "vair" five times but uses four different words, and only the spelling tells them apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Un Un PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ver ver ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 vert vert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 va VA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 vers ver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 verre verre ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 vert vert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 vair vair NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 apart apart ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | some puzzles | | | | | with sound | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sound=Theme | | 2 | **vert** *in a quote* | infinitive | Un | vers un | | | | ver, verre *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **vert** *in a quote* | infinitive | Un *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | vair | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vair=Topic | | 5 | **use** | present | | four different words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the spelling | | puzzles *= puzzle* | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/)