--- title: The course is "a sort of circle" ("the exact shape doesn't matter"),… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: The course is "a sort of circle" ("the exact shape doesn't matter"), there is no "One, two, three, and away", and everyone runs and stops when they like. Who acts: exact shape, One, everyone, Alice. 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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 (exact shape, One, everyone, Alice), 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:19 # text = The course is "a sort of circle" ("the exact shape doesn't matter"), there is no "One, two, three, and away", and everyone runs and stops when they like. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 25 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=22:punct 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 37 nsubj _ _ 37 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 40 when when SCONJ WRB _ 42 mark _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the exact shape | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** | present | no One | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **like** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **sort** *in a quote* | | | circle | | | | | nom sort «cognition 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:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)