--- title: A quadrille is an old-fashioned dance for couples, done in steps cal… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: A quadrille is an old-fashioned dance for couples, done in steps called «figures»; the Lobster Quadrille is Carroll's made-up sea version. Who acts: quadrille, steps, Lobster Quadrille. 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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 (quadrille, steps, Lobster Quadrille), 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:14 # text = A quadrille is an old-fashioned dance for couples, done in steps called «figures»; the Lobster Quadrille is Carroll's made-up sea version. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 quadrille quadrille NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Lobster Lobster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Quadrille Quadrille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 24 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=26:compound 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a quadrille | a fashioned dance | | | | for couples | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | participle | | a fashioned dance *not said here* | | | | in steps | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | steps *not said here* | figures | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the Lobster Quadrille | Carroll's made sea version | | | | | 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:14`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/13/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)