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title: A hazel dormouse hibernates from about October to April, curled in a… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hazel dormouse hibernates from about October to April, curled in a nest on the ground, and in summer it sleeps by day and is busy at night, so at an afternoon tea it would be fast asleep. Who acts: hazel dormouse, Dormouse. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 11

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A hazel dormouse hibernates from about October to April, curled in a nest on the ground, and in summer it sleeps by day and is busy at night, so at an afternoon tea it would be fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** hazel dormouse, Dormouse · **What happens:** hibernate, curl, sleep, be · **To what, where:** nest, afternoon tea

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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 (hazel dormouse, Dormouse), 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:11
# text = A hazel dormouse hibernates from about October to April, curled in a nest on the ground, and in summer it sleeps by day and is busy at night, so at an afternoon tea it would be fast asleep.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hibernates	hibernate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | present | a hazel dormouse |  |  |  | april; october |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **curl** | participle | a hazel dormouse *not said here* |  |  | a nest on the ground |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | Dormouse |  |  |  | day; summer |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Dormouse *not said here* |  |  |  | night | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | Dormouse |  |  | a afternoon tea |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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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