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title: The Dodo who runs the Caucus-race was a real bird, a big flightless… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dodo who runs the Caucus-race was a real bird, a big flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius, and it died out long before Alice was written: no one alive has seen a dodo. Who acts: Dodo, one. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare,
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 1

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The Dodo who runs the Caucus-race was a real bird, a big flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius, and it died out long before Alice was written: no one alive has seen a dodo.

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**Who acts:** Dodo, one · **What happens:** run, be, die out, write, see · **To what, where:** Caucus race, real bird, Alice, dodo

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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 (Dodo, one), 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:1
# text = The Dodo who runs the Caucus-race was a real bird, a big flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius, and it died out long before Alice was written: no one alive has seen a dodo.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Caucus	caucus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	flightless	flightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
37	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	dodo	dodo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **run** | present | the Dodo | the Caucus race |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Dodo | a real bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die out** | past | Dodo |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **write** | past · passive |  | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | no one | a dodo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dodo=Stimulus |

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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:1`.

**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 ×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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