Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 17

Alice mixes up «antipodes» (the people on the opposite side of the Earth) with «antipathies» (strong dislikes), a funny word mistake called a malapropism.

Who acts: Alice, malapropism · What happens: mix up, call · To what, where: antipodes, funny word mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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 (Alice, malapropism), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mixes	nsubj
2	mixes	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 mixes	compound:prt
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 antipodes	punct
5	antipodes	antipode	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mixes	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 antipodes	punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 antipodes	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 side	amod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 side	nmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 Earth	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 antipathies	case
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 antipathies	punct
20	antipathies	antipathy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mixes	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 antipathies	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 dislikes	punct
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dislikes	amod
24	dislikes	dislike	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 antipathies	appos
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 dislikes	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mistake	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mistake	det
28	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mistake	amod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mistake	compound
30	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 antipathies	appos
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 mistake	acl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 malapropism	det
33	malapropism	malapropism	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mixes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	present	Alice	antipodes				with antipathies	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent antipode=Patient with antipathy=Co-Patient
2	call	participle	a malapropism	a funny word mistake not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistake=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.

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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, 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.

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