--- title: Grammar puzzles are like maths puzzles with words: each has an exact… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics description: Grammar puzzles are like maths puzzles with words: each has an exact answer, and the trick is to look at the job each word does in this sentence, not at what it usually is. Who acts: Grammar puzzles, each, trick, word. 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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 (Grammar puzzles, each, trick, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:0 # text = Grammar puzzles are like maths puzzles with words: each has an exact answer, and the trick is to look at the job each word does in this sentence, not at what it usually is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 27 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 acl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 usually usually ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **does** | present | Grammar puzzles | | | | | like maths and puzzles with words | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | each | a exact answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the trick | | | the job | | look *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | each word | the job *not said here* | | this sentence | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | 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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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: [Plurals that make no sense: mice, shee…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/17/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/)