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title: Alice snaps «Nobody asked your opinion», and the Hatter asks «Who's… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice snaps «Nobody asked your opinion», and the Hatter asks «Who's making personal remarks now?» — she has done the very thing she scolded him for. Who acts: Alice, Nobody, Hatter, your. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the ga
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 21

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Alice snaps «Nobody asked your opinion», and the Hatter asks «Who's making personal remarks now?» — she has done the very thing she scolded him for.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Nobody, Hatter, your · **What happens:** snap, ask, make, do, scold, opine · **To what, where:** opinion, personal remarks, very thing, Hatter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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 (Alice, Nobody, Hatter, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:21
# text = Alice snaps «Nobody asked your opinion», and the Hatter asks «Who's making personal remarks now?» — she has done the very thing she scolded him for.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
15	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **snap** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | Nobody | your opinion |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opinion=Recipient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  | personal remarks |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | Alice | the very thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **scold** | past | Alice | Hatter |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **opine** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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