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title: TOOT, WOW and MOM read the same in a flat mirror, because they are s… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: TOOT, WOW and MOM read the same in a flat mirror, because they are spelt the same backwards and every letter looks the same flipped. Who acts: TOOT, letter. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 7

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TOOT, WOW and MOM read the same in a flat mirror, because they are spelt the same backwards and every letter looks the same flipped.

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**Who acts:** TOOT, letter · **What happens:** read, spell, look, flip · **To what, where:** same, flat mirror, flash

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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 (TOOT, letter), 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:7
# text = TOOT, WOW and MOM read the same in a flat mirror, because they are spelt the same backwards and every letter looks the same flipped.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	TOOT	toot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	WOW	wow	INTJ	UH	_	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	MOM	MOM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
6	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spelt	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
20	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	flipped	flip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **read** | past | TOOT | the same |  | a flat mirror |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 2 | **spell** | present · passive |  | flash |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme same=Manner |
| 3 | **look** | present | every letter | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
| 4 | **flip** | participle | every letter *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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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/).

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