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title: Alice reaches the March Hare's house and finds a tea-table under a t… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice reaches the March Hare's house and finds a tea-table under a tree. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 0

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Alice reaches the March Hare's house and finds a tea-table under a tree.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** reach, find · **To what, where:** house, tea table, tree

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» of the books 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 (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:0
# text = Alice reaches the March Hare's house and finds a tea-table under a tree.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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 ×2
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
4	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **reach** | present | Alice | the March Hare's house |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | Alice *not said here* | a tea table |  | a tree |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |

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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:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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