--- title: Understatement can be kind, too: when the Mole tips the boat over, t… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Understatement can be kind, too: when the Mole tips the boat over, the Rat just laughs, «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» Who acts: Understatement, Mole, Rat. 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 s --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 8 Understatement can be kind, too: when the Mole tips the boat over, the Rat just laughs, «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» **Who acts:** Understatement, Mole, Rat · **What happens:** be, tip over, laugh · **To what, where:** boat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Understatement, Mole, Rat), 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:8 # text = Understatement can be kind, too: when the Mole tips the boat over, the Rat just laughs, «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tips tip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj 14 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod 26 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 30 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Understatement | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tip over** | present | the Mole | the boat | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | to a Water Rat; a little *obl*; wet *property* | 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 7](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/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 9](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/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](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/)