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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 (Mouse, Alice, way, French mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:14 # text = The Mouse says nothing to her English, so Alice thinks "Perhaps it doesn't understand English" and guesses it is a French mouse "come over with William the Conqueror", although she has no clear idea how long ago history happened (William came in 1066). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:RB:_ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 guesses guess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Conqueror conqueror PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 although although SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 40 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 43 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:advmod 44 ago ago ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 48 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 1066 1066 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 obl _ _ 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mouse | nothing | mouse's English | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to english=Recipient | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | present · do-support | way | English | | | | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer english=Stimulus | | 4 | **guess** | present | way *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | way | a French mouse | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come over** *in a quote* | infinitive | a French mouse *not said here* | | | | | with William; over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | present | Alice | no clear idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 8 | **happen** | past | history | no clear idea *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **come** | past | William | | | 1066 | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1066=Location | 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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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. 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