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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 (Queen, Gryphon, creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:0 # text = The Queen wakes a Gryphon sleeping in the sun (a creature that is half eagle, half lion), orders it to take Alice to the Mock Turtle, and goes off to see about «some executions». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Gryphon gryphon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 sleeping sleeping VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 compound _ _ 19 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 off off ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 executions execution NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **wake** | present | the Queen | a Gryphon | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gryphon=Patient | | 2 | **sleeping** | gerund | a Gryphon *not said here* | | | the sun | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a creature | eagle | | | | half *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **order** | present | the Queen *not said here* | | Gryphon | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | Alice | the Mock Turtle | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alice=Theme to turtle=Destination | | 6 | **go off** | present | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | about some executions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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