--- title: Sleepy, Alice kept asking "Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes "Do bats… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Sleepy, Alice kept asking "Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes "Do bats eat cats?", because she could not answer either question, so the order did not matter; then she began to doze and dreamed she was walking hand in hand with Dinah. Who acts: Alice, cats, bats, order. 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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, cats, bats, order), 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:20 # text = Sleepy, Alice kept asking "Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes "Do bats eat cats?", because she could not answer either question, so the order did not matter; then she began to doze and dreamed she was walking hand in hand with Dinah. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 10 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 28 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 parataxis _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 doze doze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 ccomp _ _ 48 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · do-support | cats | bats | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Patient | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · do-support | bats | cats | | | | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | | 5 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | Alice | either question | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **matter** | past · do-support | the order | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **begin** | past | Alice | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **doze** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **dream** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **walk** | past · progressive | Alice | hand | | hand | | with Dinah | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory | 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:20`. **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 ×1. **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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/19/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/)