--- title: No drink or cake can do that, but asking «what would really happen i… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics description: No drink or cake can do that, but asking «what would really happen if I were tiny, or a giant?» is real science: size changes how hot or cold you get, how heavy you are and how strong your legs need to be. Who acts: drink, size, you, strong legs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drink, size, you, strong legs), 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:5 # text = No drink or cake can do that, but asking «what would really happen if I were tiny, or a giant?» is real science: size changes how hot or cold you get, how heavy you are and how strong your legs need to be. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 30 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound 31 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 40 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 45 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | can | no drink or cake | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | no drink or cake *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | no drink or cake *= drink* | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | real science | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | | size | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | present | you | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **need** | present | your strong legs | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 10 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your strong legs *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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