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title: Toad!» — he is not cleverer than the university teachers, and «knowe… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad!» — he is not cleverer than the university teachers, and «knowed» is a deliberately wrong word for «known». Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 18

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Toad!» — he is not cleverer than the university teachers, and «knowed» is a deliberately wrong word for «known».

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** not be, knowe, be, know · **To what, where:** wrong word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:18
# text = Toad!» — he is not cleverer than the university teachers, and «knowed» is a deliberately wrong word for «known».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	parataxis	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	knowed	knowe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	nsubj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	nmod	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | than the university teachers; Toad *vocative*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knowe** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a wrong word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:18`.

**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, 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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