--- title: A mouse is swimming there too, and Alice politely tries English, the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: A mouse is swimming there too, and Alice politely tries English, then her school French, but the first French sentence she knows is "Where is my cat?", which terrifies it. Who acts: mouse, Alice, first French sentence, cat. 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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, first French sentence, cat), 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:2 # text = A mouse is swimming there too, and Alice politely tries English, then her school French, but the first French sentence she knows is "Where is my cat?", which terrifies it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 politely politely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 12 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 22 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 28 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 terrifies terrify VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present · progressive | a mouse | | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | present | Alice | English | | | | politely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | Alice | the first French sentence *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the first French sentence | my cat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **terrify** | present | my cat | sentence | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)