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title: Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 10

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Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** wish, shut up, mean, fold down · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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 (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:10
# text = Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
14	fold	fold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound
22	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **shut up** *in a quote* | could | Alice |  |  |  |  | like a telescope | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fold down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:10`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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