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title: Leaving, the Caterpillar says "One side will make you grow taller, a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaving, the Caterpillar says "One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter", and, as if hearing her thought, adds "Of the mushroom." Who acts: Caterpillar, One side, you, other side. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 21

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Leaving, the Caterpillar says "One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter", and, as if hearing her thought, adds "Of the mushroom."

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**Who acts:** Caterpillar, One side, you, other side, side · **What happens:** leave, say, make, grow, hear, add · **To what, where:** you, thought · **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 (Caterpillar, One side, you, other side), 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:21
# text = Leaving, the Caterpillar says "One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter", and, as if hearing her thought, adds "Of the mushroom."
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
36	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | the Caterpillar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Caterpillar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | future | One side | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the other side | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** | gerund |  | side's thought |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus |
| 8 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the Caterpillar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the mushroom | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **think** |  | side |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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:21`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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