--- title: Carroll makes fun of Pat's Irish way of speaking ("arrum" for arm);… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: Carroll makes fun of Pat's Irish way of speaking ("arrum" for arm); laughing at people for their accents was a common old habit, and it is wrong and unkind today. Who acts: Carroll, Irish way, laughing, arrum. 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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 (Carroll, Irish way, laughing, arrum), 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:24 # text = Carroll makes fun of Pat's Irish way of speaking ("arrum" for arm); laughing at people for their accents was a common old habit, and it is wrong and unkind today. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 Pat Pat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 arrum arrum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:expl 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg, act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Carroll | fun of Pat's Irish way | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Pat's Irish way *not said here* | arrum | | | | for arm | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | at people; for people's accents | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | laughing | a common old habit | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | arrum | | | | today | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | arrum *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **accent** | | people | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: 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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:24`. **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 ×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 IV, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/23/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)