Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 19

The conger eel, the Mock Turtle's drawing master, is a real long sea fish that hides in rocks and wrecks; the «old crab» who teaches Latin and Greek is a joke about grumpy old teachers.

Who acts: conger eel, real long sea fish, old crab · What happens: be, hide, teach · To what, where: real long sea fish, rocks, Latin, joke

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 (conger eel, real long sea fish, old crab), 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 eel	det
2	conger	conger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eel	compound
3	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eel	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Turtle	det
6	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Turtle	compound
7	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 master	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Turtle	case
9	drawing	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 master	compound
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eel	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eel	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fish	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	compound
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hides	nsubj
19	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fish	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 rocks	case
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hides	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wrecks	cc
23	wrecks	wreck	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rocks	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 joke	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 crab	det
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 crab	punct
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 crab	amod
28	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 joke	nsubj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 crab	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 teaches	nsubj
31	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crab	acl:relcl
32	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 teaches	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Greek	cc
34	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Latin	conj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 joke	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 joke	det
37	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	parataxis
38	about	about	ADP	_	41 teachers	case
39	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 teachers	amod
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 teachers	amod
41	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 joke	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fish	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the conger eel	a real long sea fish				tree rules
2	hide	present	a real long sea fish			rocks and wrecks		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location
3	teach speech: other	present	the old crab		Latin and Greek			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent latin=Recipient
4	is a	present	the old crab	a joke			about grumpy old teachers	tree rules

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:19.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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