--- title: The Mock Turtle's subjects are sound-alike jokes: Mystery (history),… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: The Mock Turtle's subjects are sound-alike jokes: Mystery (history), Seaography (geography), Drawling (drawing), Stretching (sketching), Fainting in Coils (painting in oils), and Laughing and Grief (Latin and Greek). Who acts: subjects, sound alike jokes. 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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 (subjects, sound alike jokes), 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:8 # text = The Mock Turtle's subjects are sound-alike jokes: Mystery (history), Seaography (geography), Drawling (drawing), Stretching (sketching), Fainting in Coils (painting in oils), and Laughing and Grief (Latin and Greek). # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 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 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 sound sound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Seaography seaography NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Drawling drawl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 drawing drawing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Stretching stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 sketching sketch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Fainting Fainting PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Coils coil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 oils oil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 Grief Grief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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** | present | the Mock Turtle's subjects | sound alike jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drawl** *speech: other* | gerund | sound alike jokes *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sketch** | gerund | sound alike jokes *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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