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title: The Mock Turtle says no wise fish would go anywhere without a «porpo… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mock Turtle says no wise fish would go anywhere without a «porpoise», which sounds like «purpose». Who acts: Mock Turtle, wise fish, « porpoise. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 9

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The Mock Turtle says no wise fish would go anywhere without a «porpoise», which sounds like «purpose».

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**Who acts:** Mock Turtle, wise fish, « porpoise · **What happens:** say, go, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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, wise fish, « porpoise), 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:9
# text = The Mock Turtle says no wise fish would go anywhere without a «porpoise», which sounds like «purpose».
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×3
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	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | would | no wise fish |  |  |  |  | without a « porpoise; anywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | present | a « porpoise |  |  |  |  | like purpose | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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