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(the court and the first witness), sentence 21 Bill the Lizard's pencil squeaks, which Alice «could not stand»; she takes it away, and he has to write with one finger, which «left no mark on the slate». **Who acts:** Alice, Bill, one finger, Lizard · **What happens:** not stand, take away, have, write, leave, squeak · **To what, where:** pencil squeaks, Lizard, mark, slate 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, Bill, one finger, Lizard), 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:21 # text = Bill the Lizard's pencil squeaks, which Alice «could not stand»; she takes it away, and he has to write with one finger, which «left no mark on the slate». # 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 ×3 1 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 Lizard Lizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 9 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 slate slate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | could | Alice | the Lizard's pencil squeaks | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 2 | **take away** | present | Bill | Lizard | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with one finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | one finger | no mark | | the slate | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on slate=Location | | 6 | **squeak** | | the Lizard | | | | | | nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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:21`. **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 ×3. **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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)