--- title: Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: people who could not aff… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: people who could not afford soup made from real sea turtles made a pretend one from a calf's head. Who acts: Mock turtle soup, people. 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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 (Mock turtle soup, people), 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:2 # text = Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: people who could not afford soup made from real sea turtles made a pretend one from a calf's head. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mock mock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Victorian victorian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Mock turtle soup | a real Victorian dish and people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **afford** | could | people | soup | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | soup *not said here* | | real sea turtles | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from turtle=Material | | 4 | **make** | past | | a pretend one | | a calf's head | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset one=Product from head=Material | 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: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): R7-rel-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. 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