--- title: The mushroom is perfectly round, so Alice cannot tell which side is… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: The mushroom is perfectly round, so Alice cannot tell which side is which; she breaks off a bit from each side and nibbles the right-hand bit, and shrinks so fast that her chin hits her foot. Who acts: mushroom, Alice, chin. 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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 (mushroom, Alice, chin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:0 # text = The mushroom is perfectly round, so Alice cannot tell which side is which; she breaks off a bit from each side and nibbles the right-hand bit, and shrinks so fast that her chin hits her foot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 8 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 13 det _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 ccomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 nibbles nibble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the mushroom | | | | | perfectly, round *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Alice | which side | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **break off** | present | Alice | a bit | | | | from each side | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient from side=Co-Patient | | 5 | **nibble** | present | Alice *not said here* | the hand bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 6 | **shrink** | present | the mushroom *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **hit** | present | Alice's chin | Alice's foot | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme | 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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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 V, part 1…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/22/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)