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title: And the flamingos and hedgehogs used as croquet mallets and balls ar… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the flamingos and hedgehogs used as croquet mallets and balls are real too, though no real bird or hedgehog would put up with that. Who acts: flamingos, real bird. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the bi
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 4

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And the flamingos and hedgehogs used as croquet mallets and balls are real too, though no real bird or hedgehog would put up with that.

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**Who acts:** flamingos, real bird · **What happens:** use, be, put up · **To what, where:** flamingos

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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 (flamingos, real bird), 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:4
# text = And the flamingos and hedgehogs used as croquet mallets and balls are real too, though no real bird or hedgehog would put up with that.
# 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): no change
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	croquet	croquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mallets	mallet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **use** | participle |  | the flamingos and hedgehogs *not said here* |  |  |  | as croquet mallets and balls | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the flamingos and hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put up** | would | no real bird or hedgehog |  |  |  |  | with that | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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