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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 the pragmati --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 9 The Caterpillar answers in very short words: "I don't see", "It isn't", "Not a bit", "Why?" **Who acts:** Caterpillar, size · **What happens:** answer, not see, not be · **To what, where:** short words, bit · **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, size), 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:9 # text = The Caterpillar answers in very short words: "I don't see", "It isn't", "Not a bit", "Why?" # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Caterpillar | | | short words | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Caterpillar *= caterpillar* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | size | a bit | | | | | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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