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title: Five splashes paint on Two and blames Seven, who «jogged my elbow»;… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: Five splashes paint on Two and blames Seven, who «jogged my elbow»; Seven answers «Always lay the blame on others!» Who acts: Five splashes, Seven. 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 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 14

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Five splashes paint on Two and blames Seven, who «jogged my elbow»; Seven answers «Always lay the blame on others!»

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**Who acts:** Five splashes, Seven · **What happens:** paint, blame, jog, answer, lay · **To what, where:** Two, Seven, elbow, blame, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Five splashes, Seven), 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:14
# text = Five splashes paint on Two and blames Seven, who «jogged my elbow»; Seven answers «Always lay the blame on others!»
# 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): no change
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	splashes	splash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paint	paint	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blames	blame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	jogged	jog	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Always	always	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **paint** | present | Five splashes |  |  | Two |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on two=Destination |
| 2 | **blame** | present | Five splashes *not said here* | Seven |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme |
| 3 | **jog** *in a quote* | past |  | my elbow |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elbow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: express* | present | Seven |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the blame |  | others |  | always *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on other=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:14`.

**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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