--- title: Some poems are nonsense on purpose: Edward Lear's «The Owl and the P… — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics description: Some poems are nonsense on purpose: Edward Lear's «The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat» isn't realistic at all, it's fun. Who acts: poems, Owl, wind. 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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 (poems, Owl, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:15 # text = Some poems are nonsense on purpose: Edward Lear's «The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat» isn't realistic at all, it's fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.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 ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Edward edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Lear Lear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Owl Owl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 Pussy pussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 / / SYM , _ 29 cc _ _ 23 In in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 26 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 realistic realistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some poems | nonsense | | purpose | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the Owl and the Pussy cat | | | sea / a beautiful green boat | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | | | | all | | realistic *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | wind | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | 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:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:15`. **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 ×3. **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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