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title: The Dormouse who keeps falling asleep at the tea-party is sleepy for… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dormouse who keeps falling asleep at the tea-party is sleepy for a true reason: dormice really sleep through the whole winter, and in summer they sleep all day and wake at night. Who acts: Dormouse, dormice, Adventures. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dorm
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 2

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The Dormouse who keeps falling asleep at the tea-party is sleepy for a true reason: dormice really sleep through the whole winter, and in summer they sleep all day and wake at night.

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**Who acts:** Dormouse, dormice, Adventures · **What happens:** keep, fall, be, sleep, wake · **To what, where:** tea party

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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 (Dormouse, dormice, Adventures), 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:2
# text = The Dormouse who keeps falling asleep at the tea-party is sleepy for a true reason: dormice really sleep through the whole winter, and in summer they sleep all day and wake at night.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **keep** | present | the Dormouse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | the Dormouse *not said here* |  |  | the tea party |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at party=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Dormouse |  |  |  |  | for a true reason; sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** | present | dormice |  |  |  | winter |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** | present | Adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  | day; summer |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wake** | present | Adventures *= adventure* *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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