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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, Latitude), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:16 # text = Alice guessed she was near the centre of the earth, "four thousand miles down", and said "Latitude" and "Longitude" without knowing what they meant, because they were "nice grand words to say". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Latitude latitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Longitude longitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 without without SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 38 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Alice | | | the centre | | of the earth; down *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice *not said here* | Latitude and Longitude | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent latitude=Topic | | 4 | **know** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | past | Latitude | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Latitude | nice grand words | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.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): R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/)