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title: It is always six o'clock, always tea-time, so they never wash up; th… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is always six o'clock, always tea-time, so they never wash up; they just move round the table to clean cups. Who acts: head, they. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 3

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It is always six o'clock, always tea-time, so they never wash up; they just move round the table to clean cups.

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**Who acts:** head, they · **What happens:** be, not wash up, move, clean · **To what, where:** six o'clock, table, cups

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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 (head, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:3
# text = It is always six o'clock, always tea-time, so they never wash up; they just move round the table to clean cups.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | head | six o'clock |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **wash up** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | present | they |  |  | the table |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round table=Trajectory |
| 4 | **clean** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | cups |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=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:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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): 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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