--- title: A live lobster is usually dark greenish brown or bluish; it turns re… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: A live lobster is usually dark greenish brown or bluish; it turns red only when it is cooked, which is why the lobster in Alice's poem says «You have baked me too brown». Who acts: live lobster, it, lobster, You. 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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 (live lobster, it, lobster, You), 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:8 # text = A live lobster is usually dark greenish brown or bluish; it turns red only when it is cooked, which is why the lobster in Alice's poem says «You have baked me too brown». # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bluish bluish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl:relcl _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 baked bake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 39 . . 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** | present | a live lobster | | | | | brown, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a live lobster *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | present | it | | | | | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cook** | present · passive | | dance | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the lobster in Alice's poem | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **bake** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | the lobster in Alice's poem *= lobster* | | | | brown *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | 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: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): R6-punct-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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