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title: The conger eel, the Mock Turtle's drawing master, is a real long sea… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics
description: The conger eel, the Mock Turtle's drawing master, is a real long sea fish that hides in rocks and wrecks; the «old crab» who teaches Latin and Greek is a joke about grumpy old teachers. Who acts: conger eel, real long sea fish, old crab. A sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-
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# Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 19

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The conger eel, the Mock Turtle's drawing master, is a real long sea fish that hides in rocks and wrecks; the «old crab» who teaches Latin and Greek is a joke about grumpy old teachers.

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**Who acts:** conger eel, real long sea fish, old crab · **What happens:** be, hide, teach · **To what, where:** real long sea fish, rocks, Latin, joke

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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 (conger eel, real long sea fish, old crab), 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:19
# text = The conger eel, the Mock Turtle's drawing master, is a real long sea fish that hides in rocks and wrecks; the «old crab» who teaches Latin and Greek is a joke about grumpy old teachers.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	conger	conger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mock	mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	drawing	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wrecks	wreck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the conger eel | a real long sea fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | present | a real long sea fish |  |  | rocks and wrecks |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the old crab |  | Latin and Greek |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent latin=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the old crab | a joke |  |  |  | about grumpy old teachers | tree rules |

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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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**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, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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