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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, whoever, half), 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:4 # text = Nibbling first one bit and then the other, Alice gets back to her normal height, then makes herself nine inches tall so as not to scare whoever lives in a tiny house nearby: half of her plan is done. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 20 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 29 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 37 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 42 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nibble** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | one bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get back** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | present | Alice *not said here* | Alice | | | then | tall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | | 4 | **not** **scare** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | present | whoever | | | a tiny house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 6 | **is** | present | half of Alice's plan | | | | | do *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **plan** | | Alice | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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 V, part 2…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/3/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)