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title: The Caterpillar's important advice is "Keep your temper", meaning st… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caterpillar's important advice is "Keep your temper", meaning stay calm and do not get angry. Who acts: important advice, your. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 11

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The Caterpillar's important advice is "Keep your temper", meaning stay calm and do not get angry.

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**Who acts:** important advice, your · **What happens:** be, mean, stay, not get, temper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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 (important advice, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:11
# text = The Caterpillar's important advice is "Keep your temper", meaning stay calm and do not get angry.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Caterpillar's important advice |  |  |  |  | keep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | the Caterpillar's important advice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the Caterpillar's important advice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | infinitive · do-support | the Caterpillar's important advice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **temper** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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