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title: «How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» —… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: «How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» — then, seeing the Queen behind her — «—likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.» The Queen smiles and passes on. Who acts: you, head, Queen. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2:
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 18

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«How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» — then, seeing the Queen behind her — «—likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.» The Queen smiles and passes on.

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**Who acts:** you, head, Queen · **What happens:** not like, see, win, be, finish, smile · **To what, where:** Queen, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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 (you, head, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:18
# text = «How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» — then, seeing the Queen behind her — «—likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.» The Queen smiles and passes on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
12	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
15	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj
42	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
48	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
53	on	on	ADV	RB	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the Queen |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | you *not said here* | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head |  |  |  |  | hardly, worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **finish** *in a quote* | gerund | head *not said here* | the game |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality |
| 6 | **smile** | present | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pass on** | present | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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