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title: The Mock Turtle is not a real animal: «mock» means pretend, and mock… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mock Turtle is not a real animal: «mock» means pretend, and mock turtle soup was made from a calf's head instead of turtle meat. Who acts: Mock Turtle, mock. A sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Ca
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# Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 13

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The Mock Turtle is not a real animal: «mock» means pretend, and mock turtle soup was made from a calf's head instead of turtle meat.

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**Who acts:** Mock Turtle, mock · **What happens:** not be, mean, pretend, make · **To what, where:** real animal, turtle soup, head

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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 (Mock Turtle, mock), 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:13
# text = The Mock Turtle is not a real animal: «mock» means pretend, and mock turtle soup was made from a calf's head instead of turtle meat.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mock	mock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mock	mock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
17	mock	mock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the Mock Turtle | a real animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | mock |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | infinitive | mock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | turtle soup |  | a calf's head |  | instead turtle meat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from head=Material |

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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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**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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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