--- title: To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King ask… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King asks the cook «What are tarts made of?» and she answers «Pepper, mostly». Who acts: witness, King, cook. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? 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(the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 27 To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King asks the cook «What are tarts made of?» and she answers «Pepper, mostly». **Who acts:** witness, King, cook · **What happens:** cross-examine, mean, question, ask, make, answer · **To what, where:** cook, tarts, Pepper · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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 (witness, King, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:27 # text = To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King asks the cook «What are tarts made of?» and she answers «Pepper, mostly». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 cross-examine cross-examine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 nsubj _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 question question VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 closely closely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 18 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obl _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 Pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 31 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross-examine** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **question** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a witness | | | | | closely *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the King | the cook | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive | | tarts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | cook | Pepper | | | | mostly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pepper=Eventuality | 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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:27`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/26/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)