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title: Alice quickly hides them in a big flower-pot; the soldiers can't fin… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice quickly hides them in a big flower-pot; the soldiers can't find them and simply report «Their heads are gone». Who acts: Alice, soldiers, heads. 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
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 8

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Alice quickly hides them in a big flower-pot; the soldiers can't find them and simply report «Their heads are gone».

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**Who acts:** Alice, soldiers, heads · **What happens:** hide, not find, report, be · **To what, where:** heads, big flower pot · **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 (Alice, soldiers, heads), 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:8
# text = Alice quickly hides them in a big flower-pot; the soldiers can't find them and simply report «Their heads are gone».
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:aux:pass
25	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	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 | **hide** | present | Alice | heads *= head* |  | a big flower pot |  | quickly *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in pot=Location |
| 2 | **not** **find** | can | the soldiers | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **report** | infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | heads's heads |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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