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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, three inches, Caterpillar, height), 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:19 # text = Alice says "three inches is such a wretched height to be" ("wretched" = miserable), and the Caterpillar, "exactly three inches high", says "It is a very good height indeed!" # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 10 det:predet _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wretched wretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:mark 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wretched wretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:acl 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 = = PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Caterpillar caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 35 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 41 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | three inches | such wretched height | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | wretched *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Caterpillar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | height | a good height | | | | indeed *property* | tree rules | 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:19`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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