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title: Picture a wet afternoon: you write "level" on a steamy window and re… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, level, that. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, level, that · **What happens:** picture, write, read, be · **To what, where:** level, steamy window, other side, palindrome · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language 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 (you, level, that), 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:1
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	steamy	steamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **write** | present | you | level |  | a steamy window |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent level=Theme on window=Destination |
| 3 | **read** | present | you *not said here* | level |  | the other side of the glass |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from side=Source |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | level | level |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that | a palindrome |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:language:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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