Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 8
The Mock Turtle's subjects are sound-alike jokes: Mystery (history), Seaography (geography), Drawling (drawing), Stretching (sketching), Fainting in Coils (painting in oils), and Laughing and Grief (Latin and Greek).
Who acts: subjects, sound alike jokes · What happens: be, drawl, sketch · To what, where: sound alike jokes
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 (subjects, sound alike jokes), 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 | 5 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Turtle | case |
| 5 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jokes | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 jokes | cop |
| 7 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jokes | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sound | punct |
| 9 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jokes | amod |
| 10 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mystery | punct |
| 12 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jokes | appos |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 history | punct |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mystery | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 history | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Seaography | punct |
| 17 | Seaography | seaography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Mystery | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 geography | punct |
| 19 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Seaography | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 geography | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Drawling | punct |
| 22 | Drawling | drawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jokes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawing | punct |
| 24 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Drawling | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawing | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stretching | punct |
| 27 | Stretching | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Drawling | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 sketching | punct |
| 29 | sketching | sketch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Stretching | conj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 sketching | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fainting | punct |
| 32 | Fainting | Fainting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Stretching | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Coils | case |
| 34 | Coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Stretching | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 painting | punct |
| 36 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Coils | appos |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 oils | case |
| 38 | oils | oil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 painting | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 painting | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Laughing | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Laughing | cc |
| 42 | Laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Drawling | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Grief | cc |
| 44 | Grief | Grief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Laughing | conj |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 Latin | punct |
| 46 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Grief | appos |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Greek | cc |
| 48 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Latin | conj |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Latin | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jokes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Mock Turtle's subjects | sound alike jokes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drawl speech: other | gerund | sound alike jokes not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sketch | gerund | sound alike jokes not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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