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title: When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to swim in; real tears come in small drops, and even a long cry makes far less than a cupful. Who acts: Alice, real tears, long cry. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and ti
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# Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 19

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When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to swim in; real tears come in small drops, and even a long cry makes far less than a cupful.

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**Who acts:** Alice, real tears, long cry · **What happens:** cry, make, swim, come · **To what, where:** pool, small drops, less

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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 (Alice, real tears, long cry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:19
# text = When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to swim in; real tears come in small drops, and even a long cry makes far less than a cupful.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	obj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cupful	cupful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | as a giant | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | Alice | a pool of tears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | real tears |  |  | small drops |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drop=Location |
| 5 | **make** | present | a long cry | less |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset less=Product |

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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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**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. **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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