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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, many different sizes, Caterpillar), 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:8 # text = Alice says "being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing", and the Caterpillar answers "It isn't". # 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, R6-punct-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 `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 confusing confusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Caterpillar caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 ccomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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* | gerund | | many different sizes | | | day | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | many different sizes | | | | | confusing *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Caterpillar | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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:8`. **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, R6-punct-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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