--- title: Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» of the biology course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/) / 4 # Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 4 Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar. **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** nibble, grow, shrink, talk · **To what, where:** mushroom This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» of the biology 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 (Alice), 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:4 # text = Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar. # 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 Earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 nibbles nibble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 shrink shrink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 hookah hookah NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nibble** | present | Alice | a mushroom | | | | early *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shrink** | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **talk** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with a smoking Caterpillar | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with caterpillar=Co-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:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:4`. **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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