Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 8

A live lobster is usually dark greenish brown or bluish; it turns red only when it is cooked, which is why the lobster in Alice's poem says «You have baked me too brown».

Who acts: live lobster, it, lobster, You · What happens: be, turn, cook, say, bake · To what, where: dance, lobster · 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 (live lobster, it, lobster, You), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lobster	det
2	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lobster	amod
3	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brown	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brown	cop
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 brown	advmod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brown	amod
7	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brown	amod
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 bluish	cc
10	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brown	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 red	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turns	nsubj
13	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brown	parataxis
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turns	xcomp
15	only	only	ADV	_	13 turns	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 cooked	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cooked	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cooked	aux:pass
19	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 turns	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 why	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 why	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 why	cop
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 brown	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lobster	det
25	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 says	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 poem	case
27	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 poem	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Alice	case
29	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lobster	nmod
30	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 why	advcl:relcl
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 baked	punct
32	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 baked	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 baked	aux
34	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 says	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 baked	obj
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 brown	advmod
37	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 baked	xcomp
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 baked	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a live lobster		brown, usually property	tree rules
2	be		a live lobster not said here			tree rules
3	turn	present	it		red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	cook	present · passive		dance		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	is	present			why property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	the lobster in Alice's poem			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	bake in a quote	present · perfect	You	the lobster in Alice's poem = lobster	brown property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product

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:8.

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. 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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