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title: She jokes "I'm grown up now", because there is "no room to grow up a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics
description: She jokes "I'm grown up now", because there is "no room to grow up any more here", and wonders if she will never get older: no old age, but lessons for ever; then she answers herself: "How can you learn lessons in here? Who acts: Alice, room, you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapt
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 17

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She jokes "I'm grown up now", because there is "no room to grow up any more here", and wonders if she will never get older: no old age, but lessons for ever; then she answers herself: "How can you learn lessons in here?

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**Who acts:** Alice, room, you · **What happens:** joke, grow up, be, wonder, not get, answer · **To what, where:** old age, Alice, lessons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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 (Alice, room, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:17
# text = She jokes "I'm grown up now", because there is "no room to grow up any more here", and wonders if she will never get older: no old age, but lessons for ever; then she answers herself: "How can you learn lessons in here?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jokes	joke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Ind
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wonders	wonder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	nmod	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
46	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	_
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	_
49	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:parataxis
53	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:nmod
56	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Alice | no old age but lessons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present · passive | Alice |  |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no room |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no room *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Alice |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **answer** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | Alice |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **learn** *in a quote* | can | you | lessons |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |

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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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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