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title: "Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad"… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad" because they are ill is unkind. Who acts: real people, people, calling. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 15

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"Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad" because they are ill is unkind.

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**Who acts:** real people, people, calling · **What happens:** mean, call, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 (real people, people, calling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:15
# text = "Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad" because they are ill is unkind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl:relcl	_	_
8	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in this book; crazy *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in book=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | real people |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | calling |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | 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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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