Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 11
Turtles live mostly in water and have flippers or webbed feet; tortoises live on land and have heavy, stumpy legs; the Mock Turtle's teacher is called Tortoise only for the pun «because he taught us».
Who acts: Turtles, tortoises, teacher · What happens: live, have, web, call, teach · To what, where: water, flippers, land, heavy stumpy legs, teacher, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» of the biology 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 (Turtles, tortoises, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 8 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 feet | cc |
| 10 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flippers | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 13 | tortoises | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | conj |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 legs | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heavy | punct |
| 21 | stumpy | stumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 legs | amod |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Turtle | det |
| 25 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Turtle | compound |
| 26 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Turtle | case |
| 28 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux:pass |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 live | parataxis |
| 31 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 pun | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 pun | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pun | det |
| 35 | pun | pun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | obl |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 taught | punct |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 taught | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 taught | nsubj |
| 39 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | advcl |
| 40 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 taught | obj |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 taught | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Turtles | water | mostly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | Turtles not said here | flippers or webbed feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | web | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | present | tortoises | land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | ||||
| 5 | have | present | tortoises not said here | heavy stumpy legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 6 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the Mock Turtle's teacher | for the pun | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for pun=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | teacher | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
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, 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:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:11.
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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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.
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