--- title: Alice asks "What is a Caucus-race?", "not that she wanted much to kn… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice asks "What is a Caucus-race?", "not that she wanted much to know", but because the Dodo paused as if somebody ought to speak; the Dodo answers "the best way to explain it is to do it". Who acts: Alice, Eaglet, Dodo, best way. 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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 (Alice, Eaglet, Dodo, best way), 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:17 # text = Alice asks "What is a Caucus-race?", "not that she wanted much to know", but because the Dodo paused as if somebody ought to speak; the Dodo answers "the best way to explain it is to do it". # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 4 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 Caucus caucus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 18 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 paused pause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:mark 30 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj 31 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:aux 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advcl 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 41 amod _ _ 41 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a Caucus race | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | past | Eaglet | much | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **pause** | participle | the Dodo | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Dodo *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Dodo | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* | way | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the best way | | | | | do *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/16/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)