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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 (Alice, side, one), 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:18 # text = Asked what size she wants to be, Alice first says "I'm not particular as to size", but adds that "one doesn't like changing so often". # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int 3 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct 9 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 first first ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 17 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 30 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** | present | side | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | side *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | as size; particular *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | one | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **change** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | one *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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