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title: Talk in this lesson: «lush» (Wales) = lovely; «proper job» (West Cou… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «lush» (Wales) = lovely; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «it's giving» = it looks like, it's showing off; «yeah nah» (Australia, NZ) = no. Who acts: you, ground, it. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (paintin
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 32

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Talk in this lesson: «lush» (Wales) = lovely; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «it's giving» = it looks like, it's showing off; «yeah nah» (Australia, NZ) = no.

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**Who acts:** you, ground, it · **What happens:** talk, do, give, look, show off · **To what, where:** lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (you, ground, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:32
# text = Talk in this lesson: «lush» (Wales) = lovely; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «it's giving» = it looks like, it's showing off; «yeah nah» (Australia, NZ) = no.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lush	lush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
17	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
35	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
42	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
43	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
44	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	_
45	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	NZ	NZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
51	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	30	dep	_	_
52	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | ground |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **show off** | present · progressive | ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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, R6-punct-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.

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