--- title: A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at le… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics description: A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a famous one, used for testing typewriters and fonts. Who acts: pangram, sentence, quick brown fox, jumps. 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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 (pangram, sentence, quick brown fox, jumps), 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:8 # text = A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a famous one, used for testing typewriters and fonts. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pangram pangram NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 obl _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 19 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 20 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 21 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound 22 jumps jump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 testing testing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 typewriters typewriter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 fonts font NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a pangram | a sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | a sentence | every letter of the alphabet | | | | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 3 | **jump** *in a quote* | | the quick brown fox | | | | | over the lazy dog | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | jumps | a famous one | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | participle | | a famous one *not said here* | | | | for testing typewriters and fonts | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **letter** | | | the alphabet | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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:8`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/7/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part two, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/)