--- title: Words are like Lego: you can flip them, shuffle their letters, read… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Words, you, puzzle. 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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 (Words, you, puzzle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Lego Lego PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 flip flip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shuffle shuffle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Words | | | | | like Lego | tree rules | | 2 | **flip** | can | you | Words *= word* | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **shuffle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Words's letters | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 4 | **read** | infinitive | you *not said here* | letters *= letter* | | | | backwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | new jobs | letters *= letter* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient job=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | every puzzle | a exact answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 7 | **check** | can | you | letter | | | | by letter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 8 | **letter** | | Words *= word* | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R3-conj-first ×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: [French compared with English, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/14/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/)