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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 (Mock Turtle, very words), 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:11 # text = «I mean what I say,» answers the Mock Turtle, offended — the very words that tangled Alice up at the tea-party. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 offended offended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tangled tangle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tangle up** | past | the very words | Alice | | the tea party | | | tree rules | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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 X, part 1…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)