--- title: Grammar puzzles, part two — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Grammar puzzles, part two», a lesson of the language course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Words are like Lego: you can flip them, shuffle their letters, read them backwards and give them new jobs, and every puzzle has an exact answer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / Grammar puzzles, part two # Grammar puzzles, part two Lesson 36 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/0/) — Words are like Lego: you can flip them, shuffle their letters, read them backwards and give them new jobs, and every puzzle has an exact answer you can check letter by letter. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/1/) — Picture a wet afternoon: you write "level" on a steamy window and read it from the other side of the glass, and it's still "level"; that is a palindrome. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/2/) — Shuffle the letters of "listen" and you get "silent"; that's an anagram, and the letters must be used exactly once each, no more and no less. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/3/) — One word can do several jobs: "fast" can be a describing word, a how-word, a doing-word or a naming-word, and only the sentence tells you which. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/4/) — The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and test your answer before you shout it out. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/5/) — In the active voice the doer comes first: "The cat chased the mouse"; in the passive voice the thing the action is done to comes first, and "by" shows the doer: "The mouse was chased by the cat". - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/6/) — A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards: level, radar, kayak, racecar; "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence if you ignore spaces and punctuation. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/7/) — An anagram is a word made by rearranging all the letters of another word: "listen" gives "silent", "tinsel" and "enlist"; "night" gives "thing", and "earth" gives "heart". - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/8/) — A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a famous one, used for testing typewriters and fonts. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/9/) — "Strengths" has nine letters and only one vowel letter, e. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/10/) — "Facetious" (jokey at the wrong moment) has the vowels a, e, i, o, u once each, in alphabetical order. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/11/) — "Rhythm", "myth", "gym", "fly" and "sky" have no a, e, i, o or u; in them the letter y does the job of a vowel. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/12/) — "Fast" can be an adjective ("a fast car"), an adverb ("he runs fast"), a verb meaning go without food ("I fast on holy days") and a noun ("a three-day fast"). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/13/) — "Uncopyrightable" has 15 letters and not one of them repeats; a word with no repeated letters is called an isogram. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/15/) — Some words mean their own opposite: "dust" can mean take dust off (dust the shelf) or put powder on (dust the cake with sugar), and "left" can mean gone (he left) or still here (one biscuit left). - ← previous: [French compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/) - next →: [Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/)