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title: The Footman says there's no use knocking for two reasons: "First, be… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Footman says there's no use knocking for two reasons: "First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you." Who acts: Footman, use, you, doors. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI,
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 14

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The Footman says there's no use knocking for two reasons: "First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you."

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**Who acts:** Footman, use, you, doors, one · **What happens:** say, be, knock, make, hear · **To what, where:** same side, noise, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the books 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 (Footman, use, you, doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:14
# text = The Footman says there's no use knocking for two reasons: "First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Footman	footman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Footman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | no use |  |  | there |  | first, secondly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **knock** | gerund | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for two reasons | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Footman *= footman* |  |  | the same side |  | of the door | tree rules |
| 5 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | doors *= door* | such noise |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | could | no one | you |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:14`.

**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, 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/).

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