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title: Talk in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice;… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice; «howay» (North East) = come on; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, decent; «no cap» = honestly; «ate» = did it brilliantly. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 34

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Talk in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice; «howay» (North East) = come on; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, decent; «no cap» = honestly; «ate» = did it brilliantly.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, come on, sound, eat · **To what, where:** lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:34
# text = Talk in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice; «howay» (North East) = come on; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, decent; «no cap» = honestly; «ate» = did it brilliantly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 023-alice-alices-evidence-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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	canny	canny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	amod	_	_
11	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
21	howay	howay	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod
25	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sound	sound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	38	punct	_	_
38	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	appos	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	parataxis	_	_
45	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
46	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	50	punct	_	_
47	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
50	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
51	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	50	punct	_	_
53	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson  canny » |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | howay *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:34`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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