--- title: A caucus is a meeting of members of a political party; Carroll's Cau… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: A caucus is a meeting of members of a political party; Carroll's Caucus-race is a joke about people running round in circles and getting nowhere. Who acts: caucus, Caucus race, people, Carroll. 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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 (caucus, Caucus race, people, Carroll), 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:18 # text = A caucus is a meeting of members of a political party; Carroll's Caucus-race is a joke about people running round in circles and getting nowhere. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 caucus caucus NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 13 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 Caucus caucus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 round round ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 29 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a caucus | a meeting | | | | of members of a political party | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Carroll's Caucus race | a joke | | | | about people | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | circles | | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | | 4 | **get** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | nowhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **race** | | Carroll | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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: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): 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 III, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/17/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)