--- title: Shuffle the letters of "listen" and you get "silent"; that's an anag… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, that. 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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 (you, 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:2 # text = 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. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Shuffle shuffle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 silent silent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 anagram anagram NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 advmod _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 no no ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 no no ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 34 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shuffle** | infinitive | | the letters | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | present | you | silent | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | a anagram | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | must · passive | | the letters | | | | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:2`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/1/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/)