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title: Carroll's poem makes fun of a serious old poem that children had to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Carroll's poem makes fun of a serious old poem that children had to learn by heart, in which a wise old man gives good advice. Who acts: poem, children, wise old man. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 16

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Carroll's poem makes fun of a serious old poem that children had to learn by heart, in which a wise old man gives good advice.

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**Who acts:** poem, children, wise old man · **What happens:** make, have, learn, give · **To what, where:** fun, that, good advice, serious old poem

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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, children, wise old man), 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:16
# text = Carroll's poem makes fun of a serious old poem that children had to learn by heart, in which a wise old man gives good advice.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Carroll's poem | fun of a serious old poem |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 2 | **have** | past | children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | that |  |  |  | by heart | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | present | a wise old man | good advice |  | a serious old poem |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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 ×2. **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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