--- title: «Shingle» is a beach of small round pebbles; «askance» means sideway… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: «Shingle» is a beach of small round pebbles; «askance» means sideways, with doubt; «a whiting» is a small sea fish. Who acts: Shingle, askance, whiting. 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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 (Shingle, askance, whiting), 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:20 # text = «Shingle» is a beach of small round pebbles; «askance» means sideways, with doubt; «a whiting» is a small sea fish. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Shingle Shingle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 askance askance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Shingle | a beach and a small sea fish | | | | of small round pebbles | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | askance | | | | | with doubt | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideways=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | a whiting | a small sea fish | | | | | 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:20`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/17/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)