--- title: Alice tells the Caterpillar that one day it will turn into a chrysal… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice tells the Caterpillar that one day it will turn into a chrysalis and then a butterfly, which is true science hidden in a silly conversation. Who acts: Alice, Caterpillar, butterfly. 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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, Caterpillar, butterfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:16 # text = Alice tells the Caterpillar that one day it will turn into a chrysalis and then a butterfly, which is true science hidden in a silly conversation. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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): no change 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | the Caterpillar | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **turn** | future | Caterpillar | | | a chrysalis and a butterfly | day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory | | 3 | **is a** | present | a butterfly | true science | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | participle | | true science *not said here* | | a silly conversation | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in conversation=Location | 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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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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