Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 13

The Mock Turtle is not a real animal: «mock» means pretend, and mock turtle soup was made from a calf's head instead of turtle meat.

Who acts: Mock Turtle, mock · What happens: not be, mean, pretend, make · To what, where: real animal, turtle soup, head

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 (Mock Turtle, mock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 animal	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 animal	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 mock	punct
11	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 mock	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	parataxis
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 means	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
17	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turtle	compound
18	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soup	compound
19	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 means	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 head	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 calf	det
24	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 head	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 calf	case
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 meat	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meat	compound
30	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 animal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the Mock Turtle	a real animal			tree rules
2	mean	present	mock				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pretend not said to happen	infinitive	mock not said here				tree rules
4	make	past · passive		turtle soup	a calf's head	instead turtle meat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from head=Material

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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

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