--- title: Turtles live mostly in water and have flippers or webbed feet; torto… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Turtles live mostly in water and have flippers or webbed feet; tortoises live on land and have heavy, stumpy legs; the Mock Turtle's teacher is called Tortoise only for the pun «because he taught us». Who acts: Turtles, tortoises, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turtles, tortoises, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:11 # text = Turtles live mostly in water and have flippers or webbed feet; tortoises live on land and have heavy, stumpy legs; the Mock Turtle's teacher is called Tortoise only for the pun «because he taught us». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 19 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 stumpy stumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 31 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Turtles | | | water | | mostly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | Turtles *not said here* | flippers or webbed feet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient | | 3 | **web** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present | tortoises | | | land | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | | 5 | **have** | present | tortoises *not said here* | heavy stumpy legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 6 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the Mock Turtle's teacher | | | | for the pun | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for pun=Beneficiary | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | teacher | | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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