Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 2
The Mock Turtle's school subjects are puns too: Reeling and Writhing for reading and writing, and four kinds of sums: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision, for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Who acts: school subjects · What happens: be · To what, where: puns
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 (school subjects), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Turtle | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 subjects | compound |
| 6 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 puns | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 puns | cop |
| 8 | puns | pun | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 puns | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Reeling | punct |
| 11 | Reeling | reeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puns | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Writhing | cc |
| 13 | Writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 reading | case |
| 15 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 writing | cc |
| 17 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reading | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kinds | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kinds | cc |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 kinds | nummod |
| 21 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sums | case |
| 23 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kinds | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ambition | punct |
| 25 | Ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puns | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Distraction | punct |
| 27 | Distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ambition | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Uglification | punct |
| 29 | Uglification | uglification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ambition | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Derision | cc |
| 31 | Derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Uglification | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 addition | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 addition | case |
| 34 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ambition | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 subtraction | punct |
| 36 | subtraction | subtraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 addition | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 multiplication | punct |
| 38 | multiplication | multiplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ambition | appos |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 division | cc |
| 40 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 multiplication | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 puns | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Mock Turtle's school subjects | puns and Reeling and Writhing and four kinds of sums and Ambition for addition and subtraction and Distraction and Uglification and Derision | 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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:2.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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