--- title: A whiting is a real silvery fish of the cod family from the North Se… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: A whiting is a real silvery fish of the cod family from the North Sea; Victorian cooks served it fried with its tail fixed in its mouth, and that is where the Mock Turtle's «tails in their mouths» joke comes from: live whiting swim like any other fish. 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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 (whiting, Victorian cooks, that, tails joke), 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:9 # text = A whiting is a real silvery fish of the cod family from the North Sea; Victorian cooks served it fried with its tail fixed in its mouth, and that is where the Mock Turtle's «tails in their mouths» joke comes from: live whiting swim like any other fish. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 silvery silvery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 cod cod NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Victorian victorian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 fried fry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 compound _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 44 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl:relcl _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 45 obl _ _ 47 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 48 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 parataxis _ _ 51 like like ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 54 det _ _ 53 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:nmod 55 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | a whiting | a real silvery fish | | | | of the cod family from the North Sea | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | past | Victorian cooks | whiting | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fry** | participle | Victorian cooks *not said here* | | | | | with whiting's tail | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with tail=Instrument | | 4 | **fix** | participle | | whiting's tail *not said here* | | whiting's mouth | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | present | the Mock Turtle's tails joke | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **swim** | present | live whiting | | | | | like any other fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **joke** | | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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. 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