--- title: Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: a cheaper copy of turtle… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: a cheaper copy of turtle soup, usually made from a calf's head; «mock» means pretend. Who acts: Mock turtle soup, mock. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/) / 30 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 30 Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: a cheaper copy of turtle soup, usually made from a calf's head; «mock» means pretend. **Who acts:** Mock turtle soup, mock · **What happens:** be, make, mean, pretend, copy · **To what, where:** real Victorian dish, cheaper copy, head, turtle soup This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books 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 soup, mock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:30 # text = Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: a cheaper copy of turtle soup, usually made from a calf's head; «mock» means pretend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mock mock ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 _ _ 8 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 copy copy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 mock mock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 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 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a cheaper copy of turtle soup *not said here* | | a calf's head | | usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from head=Material | | 3 | **mean** | present | mock | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | infinitive | mock *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **copy** | | | turtle soup | | | | | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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