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title: "You are not attending!" (not paying attention) says the Mouse; Alic… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: "You are not attending!" (not paying attention) says the Mouse; Alice thinks it has got "to the fifth bend", and when it cries "I had not!", she thinks it said "a knot" and offers to undo it. Who acts: You, Mouse, Alice, tale. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prize
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 15

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"You are not attending!" (not paying attention) says the Mouse; Alice thinks it has got "to the fifth bend", and when it cries "I had not!", she thinks it said "a knot" and offers to undo it.

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**Who acts:** You, Mouse, Alice, tale · **What happens:** not attend, not pay, say, think, get, cry · **To what, where:** attention, knot, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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 (You, Mouse, Alice, tale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:15
# text = "You are not attending!" (not paying attention) says the Mouse; Alice thinks it has got "to the fifth bend", and when it cries "I had not!", she thinks it said "a knot" and offers to undo it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:parataxis
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **attend** *in a quote* | present · progressive | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pay** | gerund |  | attention |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | to the fifth bend | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present · perfect | tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | tale |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tale | a knot |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knot=Topic |
| 10 | **offer** | present | Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **undo** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* | tale |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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**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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:15`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/).

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