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title: The poem ends: "I have answered three questions, and that is enough,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poem ends: "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," "Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!" Who acts: poem, old man, that. 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 t
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 15

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The poem ends: "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," "Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"

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**Who acts:** poem, old man, that · **What happens:** end, answer, be, kick down · **To what, where:** three questions, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poem, old man, that), 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:15
# text = The poem ends: "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," "Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | the poem |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | the old man *= man* | three questions |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **kick down** *in a quote* | future | the old man *= man* | you |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent you=Patient stair=Result |

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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: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): R7-rel-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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