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title: Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know much, and that's a fact"; Alice says "I didn't know that cats could grin"; Cheshire is a county in England, and "to grin like a Cheshire cat" was an old saying. Who acts: You, that, Alice, I. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonde
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 21

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Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know much, and that's a fact"; Alice says "I didn't know that cats could grin"; Cheshire is a county in England, and "to grin like a Cheshire cat" was an old saying.

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**Who acts:** You, that, Alice, I, cats, Cheshire · **What happens:** shouting, tell, not know, be, say, grin · **To what, where:** Pig, baby, Alice, much, fact, county · **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 (You, that, Alice, I), 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:21
# text = Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know much, and that's a fact"; Alice says "I didn't know that cats could grin"; Cheshire is a county in England, and "to grin like a Cheshire cat" was an old saying.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shouting	shouting	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:acl
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	grin	grin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	grin	grin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	csubj	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shouting** *in a quote* | gerund |  | Pig |  | the baby |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | You | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **grin** | could | cats |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Cheshire | a county and a old saying |  | England |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **grin** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like a Cheshire cat | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Cheshire *not said here* | a old saying |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:21`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-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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