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title: Mirror puzzles need care: a word reads the same in a flat mirror onl… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mirror puzzles need care: a word reads the same in a flat mirror only if it is spelt the same backwards and uses only letters that look the same flipped, such as A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Y. Who acts: Mirror puzzles, word, letters. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, elect
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# Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 3

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Mirror puzzles need care: a word reads the same in a flat mirror only if it is spelt the same backwards and uses only letters that look the same flipped, such as A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Y.

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**Who acts:** Mirror puzzles, word, letters · **What happens:** need, read, spell, use, look, flip · **To what, where:** care, same, flat mirror, word, letters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics 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 (Mirror puzzles, word, letters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:3
# text = Mirror puzzles need care: a word reads the same in a flat mirror only if it is spelt the same backwards and uses only letters that look the same flipped, such as A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Y.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	spelt	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
22	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
31	flipped	flip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	35	case	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	M	M	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	V	V	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	W	W	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	X	X	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	Y	Y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | Mirror puzzles | care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | present | a word | the same |  | a flat mirror |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 3 | **spell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | word |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme same=Manner |
| 4 | **use** | present |  | letters |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | present | letters | the same |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **flip** | participle | letters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:3`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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