--- title: A real flamingo's long neck is soft and bends, which is exactly why… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics description: A real flamingo's long neck is soft and bends, which is exactly why Alice's flamingo keeps twisting round to look at her: it would be a useless croquet mallet. Who acts: long neck, flamingo, neck. 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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 (long neck, flamingo, neck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:15 # text = A real flamingo's long neck is soft and bends, which is exactly why Alice's flamingo keeps twisting round to look at her: it would be a useless croquet mallet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 3 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 conj _ _ 16 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl:relcl _ _ 20 twisting twist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 round round ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 mallet mallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a real flamingo's long neck | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bend** | present | a real flamingo's long neck *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | exactly, why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | present | Alice's flamingo | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **twist** | gerund | Alice's flamingo *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | Alice's flamingo *not said here* | | | | | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | would | neck | a useless croquet mallet | | | | | 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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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): R5-strong ×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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