--- title: A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards: level, radar, ka… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics description: A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards: level, radar, kayak, racecar; "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence if you ignore spaces and punctuation. Who acts: palindrome, sentence, you. 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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 (palindrome, sentence, you), 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:6 # text = A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards: level, radar, kayak, racecar; "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" is a palindrome sentence if you ignore spaces and punctuation. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palindrome palindrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 forwards forward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 backwards backward ADV RB _ 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 radar radar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kayak kayak NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 racecar racecar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 palindrome palindrome NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ignore ignore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, indirect=0, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | a palindrome | the same forwards and level and radar and kayak and racecar | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent forward=Recipient car=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | a palindrome *not said here* | racecar | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the sentence *= sentence* | a cat *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a palindrome sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ignore** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | spaces and punctuation | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/5/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/)