--- title: No accounting for tastes!» (= people like strange things), and asks… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: No accounting for tastes!» (= people like strange things), and asks the Mock Turtle to sing «Turtle Soup». Who acts: Mock Turtle. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/25/) [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 X, part 2…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/) / 25 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 25 No accounting for tastes!» (= people like strange things), and asks the Mock Turtle to sing «Turtle Soup». **Who acts:** Mock Turtle · **What happens:** ask, sing · **To what, where:** Mock Turtle, Turtle Soup This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:25 # text = No accounting for tastes!» (= people like strange things), and asks the Mock Turtle to sing «Turtle Soup». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 accounting accounting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 tastes taste NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 = = SYM SYM _ 9 punct _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 Turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Turtle turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 24 Soup Soup PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | | the Mock Turtle | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent turtle=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | Turtle Soup | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soup=Theme | 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:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:25`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/23/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)