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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six verses, nobody, anyone, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:18 # text = The six verses are full of «he», «she», «they», «you» and «it», so nobody can tell who anyone is; that is Carroll's joke about evidence that sounds important and means nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 conj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 28 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 ccomp _ _ 32 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 47 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 46 obj _ _ 48 . . 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 | **is** | present | the six verses | | | | | of Rabbit; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | nobody | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | anyone | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | Carroll's joke | | | | about evidence | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | present | evidence | | | | | important *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **mean** | present | evidence *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | 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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 XII, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/16/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)