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title: Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards ar… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red. Who acts: three gardeners. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 0

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Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red.

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**Who acts:** three gardeners · **What happens:** shape, paint · **To what, where:** three gardeners, white roses, garden

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (three gardeners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:0
# text = Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	playing	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
11	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	painting	paint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **shape** | participle |  | three gardeners *not said here* |  |  |  | like playing cards | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **paint** | present · progressive | three gardeners | white roses |  | the garden |  | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent rose=Theme inside garden=Destination |

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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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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