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title: The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and tes… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics
description: The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and test your answer before you shout it out. Who acts: trick, you, your. 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 4

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The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and test your answer before you shout it out.

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**Who acts:** trick, you, your · **What happens:** be, count, test, shout out, answer · **To what, where:** answer

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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 (trick, you, your), 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:4
# text = The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and test your answer before you shout it out.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | the trick with every puzzle |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive | the trick with every puzzle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **test** | infinitive | the trick with every puzzle *not said here* | your answer |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 4 | **shout out** *speech: express* | present | you | answer |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **answer** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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