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title: "Facetious" (jokey at the wrong moment) has the vowels a, e, i, o, u… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics
description: "Facetious" (jokey at the wrong moment) has the vowels a, e, i, o, u once each, in alphabetical order. Who acts: Facetious. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 10

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"Facetious" (jokey at the wrong moment) has the vowels a, e, i, o, u once each, in alphabetical order.

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**Who acts:** Facetious · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** vowels, alphabetical order

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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 (Facetious), 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:10
# text = "Facetious" (jokey at the wrong moment) has the vowels a, e, i, o, u once each, in alphabetical order.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Facetious	facetious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jokey	jokey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	a	a	X	XX	_	13	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	e	e	X	XX	_	14	list	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	i	i	X	XX	_	14	list	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
20	o	o	X	XX	_	14	list	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
22	u	u	X	XX	_	14	list	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Facetious | the vowels |  | alphabetical order |  | each *obl:unmarked* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Patient |

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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:10`.

**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): 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/).

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