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title: They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly. Who acts: creatures. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 2

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They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly.

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**Who acts:** creatures · **What happens:** jump about, explain, sit down

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» 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 (creatures), 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:2
# text = They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly.
# 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 ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **jump about** | present | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | like mad things; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | creatures *= creature* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | sadly, suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:2`.

**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. **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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