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title: "There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!", says Alice; only… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: "There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!", says Alice; only the cook and the cat do not sneeze. Who acts: much pepper, Alice, cook. 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 with its 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 19

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"There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!", says Alice; only the cook and the cat do not sneeze.

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**Who acts:** much pepper, Alice, cook · **What happens:** be, say, not sneeze · **To what, where:** soup · **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 (much pepper, Alice, cook), 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:19
# text = "There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!", says Alice; only the cook and the cat do not sneeze.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | much pepper |  |  | that soup; there |  | certainly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soup=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **sneeze** | present · do-support | the cook and the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:19`.

**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 ×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/).

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