--- title: Alice mixes up «antipodes» (the people on the opposite side of the E… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: Alice mixes up «antipodes» (the people on the opposite side of the Earth) with «antipathies» (strong dislikes), a funny word mistake called a malapropism. Who acts: Alice, malapropism. 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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 (Alice, malapropism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:17 # text = Alice mixes up «antipodes» (the people on the opposite side of the Earth) with «antipathies» (strong dislikes), a funny word mistake called a malapropism. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.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 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 antipodes antipode NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 antipathies antipathy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dislikes dislike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 malapropism malapropism NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **mix up** | present | Alice | antipodes | | | | with antipathies | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent antipode=Patient with antipathy=Co-Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | a malapropism | a funny word mistake *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistake=Recipient | 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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:17`. **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. **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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