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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 0

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«Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is full of animals that talk, argue and play croquet, but most of them are real animals with real habits, and Lewis Carroll often chose them because of those habits or of old sayings about them.

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**Who acts:** Adventures, animals, most, Lewis Carroll · **What happens:** be, talk, argue, play, choose · **To what, where:** croquet, real animals, Adventures

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology 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 (Adventures, animals, most, Lewis Carroll), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:0
# text = «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is full of animals that talk, argue and play croquet, but most of them are real animals with real habits, and Lewis Carroll often chose them because of those habits or of old sayings about them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Adventures	adventure	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
18	croquet	croquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Carroll	carroll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |  |  |  |  | of animals; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **play** | present | animals *not said here* | croquet |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | most of Adventures | real animals |  |  |  | with real habits | tree rules |
| 6 | **choose** | past | Lewis Carroll | Adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  | because that habits or old sayings about Adventures; often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:0`.

**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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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