--- title: I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", and some birds titter (giggle). Who acts: I, you, birds. 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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 (I, you, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:16 # text = I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", and some birds titter (giggle). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 11 det:predet _ _ 9 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 either either ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 titter titter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 giggle giggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | the meaning of half long words | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | present | you | | | | | either *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **titter** *in a quote* | present | some birds | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | | | half long words | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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 III, part…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)