--- title: The Mock Turtle's school subjects are puns too: Reeling and Writhing… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: The Mock Turtle's school subjects are puns too: Reeling and Writhing for reading and writing, and four kinds of sums: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision, for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Who acts: school subjects. 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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 (school subjects), 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:2 # text = The Mock Turtle's school subjects are puns too: Reeling and Writhing for reading and writing, and four kinds of sums: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision, for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 puns pun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Reeling reeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Writhing writhing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Ambition ambition NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Distraction distraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Uglification uglification NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:appos 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Derision derision NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 subtraction subtraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 multiplication multiplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 division division NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Mock Turtle's school subjects | puns and Reeling and Writhing and four kinds of sums and Ambition for addition and subtraction and Distraction and Uglification and Derision | | | | | 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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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