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A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of Wonderland: the do…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog/) / 3 # The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 3 The March Hare is mad because of an old saying, «mad as a March hare»: in spring, hares chase each other and stand up and «box» in the fields. **Who acts:** March Hare, hares · **What happens:** be, chase, stand up · **To what, where:** each 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 (March Hare, hares), 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:3 # text = The March Hare is mad because of an old saying, «mad as a March hare»: in spring, hares chase each other and stand up and «box» in the fields. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 appos _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 hares hare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 24 obj _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the March Hare | | | | | because a old saying; mad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **chase** | present | hares | each | | | spring | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 3 | **stand up** | present | hares *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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