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title: The book also calls her «very ugly»: judging people by their looks i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The book also calls her «very ugly»: judging people by their looks is an old habit we do not admire today. Who acts: book, judging, we. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 16

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The book also calls her «very ugly»: judging people by their looks is an old habit we do not admire today.

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**Who acts:** book, judging, we · **What happens:** call, judge, be, not admire · **To what, where:** Duchess, people, old habit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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 (book, judging, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:16
# text = The book also calls her «very ugly»: judging people by their looks is an old habit we do not admire today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the book |  | Duchess |  |  | ugly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent her=Recipient |
| 2 | **judge** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  | by people's looks | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value |
| 3 | **is a** | present | judging | a old habit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **admire** | present · do-support | we | a old habit *not said here* |  |  | today |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habit=Stimulus |

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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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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