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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 tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/) / 5 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 5 The Caterpillar speaks in "a languid, sleepy voice" ("languid" = slow and lazy) and asks "Who are you?" **Who acts:** Caterpillar, you · **What happens:** speak, ask, be · **To what, where:** languid sleepy voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, you), 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:5 # text = The Caterpillar speaks in "a languid, sleepy voice" ("languid" = slow and lazy) and asks "Who are you?" # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 languid languid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 languid languid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 appos _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 = = SYM SYM _ 17 dep _ _ 17 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the Caterpillar | | | a languid sleepy voice | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Caterpillar *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | 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:5`. **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 ×1, 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. 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