--- title: The bigger the boast, the sillier he looks — and the more we laugh. — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: The bigger the boast, the sillier he looks — and the more we laugh. Who acts: boast, we. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/7/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Off with her head and the finest house…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) / 7 # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 7 The bigger the boast, the sillier he looks — and the more we laugh. **Who acts:** boast, we · **What happens:** look, laugh 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 (boast, we), 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:7 # text = The bigger the boast, the sillier he looks — and the more we laugh. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sillier silly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | boast | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **laugh** | present | we | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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