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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 (he, Gryphon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:0 # text = The Mock Turtle sobs so hard he can't speak, and the Gryphon thumps him on the back as if he had a bone stuck in his throat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sobs sob VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 6 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 thumps thump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **sob** | present | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | can | he | | | | | hard *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **thump** | present | the Gryphon | him *= he* | | | | on the back | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on back=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | Gryphon | a bone | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 5 | **stick** | participle | | a bone *not said here* | | Gryphon's throat | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination | 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:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.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 ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/25/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)