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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (March Hare, tea, Alice, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:15 # text = The March Hare offers wine, but there is only tea; Alice says it «wasn't very civil» (civil = polite) to offer it, and he says it wasn't civil of her to sit down without being invited. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 5 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 23 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 = = SYM SYM _ 25 case _ _ 25 polite polite NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 ccomp _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advcl 42 down down ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 without without SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 advcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | present | the March Hare | wine | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | tea | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | Hare | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | civil *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **offer** | to-infinitive | | Hare | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | room | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **is** | past | it | | | | | of Alice; civil *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **invite** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING» | 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. **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. 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