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title: The "proper way of nursing it" is to twist it into a sort of knot an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 7

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The "proper way of nursing it" is to twist it into a sort of knot and hold tight to its right ear and left foot.

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**Who acts:** proper way · **What happens:** nurse, be, hold, sort · **To what, where:** way, sort, knot

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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 (proper way), 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:7
# text = The "proper way of nursing it" is to twist it into a sort of knot and hold tight to its right ear and left foot.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	nursing	nurse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	twist	twist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nurse** *in a quote* | gerund | the proper way *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present | the proper way |  |  | a sort of knot |  | twist *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | the proper way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to baby's right ear and left foot; tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | knot |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:7`.

**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, 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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