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(the court and the first witness), sentence 20 Alice says «Stupid things!»; the jurors all write it down, and one of them «didn't know how to spell "stupid"» and had to ask his neighbour. **Who acts:** Alice, jurors, one, neighbour · **What happens:** say, write down, not know, spell, have, ask · **To what, where:** Stupid things, word, stupid · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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, jurors, one, neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:20 # text = Alice says «Stupid things!»; the jurors all write it down, and one of them «didn't know how to spell "stupid"» and had to ask his neighbour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 jurors juror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 stupid stupid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | Stupid things | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **write down** | present | the jurors | word | | | | all *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | one of jurors | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **spell** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | stupid | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent stupid=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | one of jurors *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Alice's neighbour | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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 XI, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/19/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)