--- title: Alice keeps asking sensible questions, and the answers get sillier a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice keeps asking sensible questions, and the answers get sillier and sillier. Who acts: Alice, answers. 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 with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/) / 6 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 6 Alice keeps asking sensible questions, and the answers get sillier and sillier. **Who acts:** Alice, answers · **What happens:** keep, ask, get · **To what, where:** sensible questions 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, answers), 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:6 # text = Alice keeps asking sensible questions, and the answers get sillier and sillier. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 sillier silly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 sillier silly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | sensible questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **get** | present | the answers | | | | | silly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)