--- title: The Mouse says "Ahem!" (a little cough to get attention) and calls i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mouse says "Ahem!" (a little cough to get attention) and calls its history lesson "the driest thing I know": "dry" means without water, and also means boring. Who acts: Mouse, history lesson, dry. 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(a little cough to get attention) and calls its history lesson "the driest thing I know": "dry" means without water, and also means boring. **Who acts:** Mouse, history lesson, dry · **What happens:** say, get, call, know, mean · **To what, where:** attention, driest thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, history lesson, dry), 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:9 # text = The Mouse says "Ahem!" (a little cough to get attention) and calls its history lesson "the driest thing I know": "dry" means without water, and also means boring. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Ahem ahem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 driest dry ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 dry dry NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 33 without without ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mouse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Mouse *not said here* | attention | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Mouse's history lesson | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Mouse's history lesson *= lesson* | the driest thing *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | dry | | | | | without water | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | dry *not said here* | | | | | boring *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:9`. **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 ×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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/8/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)