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title: When she notices the Queen listening behind her, she cleverly change… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: When she notices the Queen listening behind her, she cleverly changes «she's so extremely—» into «—likely to win». Who acts: Alice, Queen. 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 sc
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 6

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When she notices the Queen listening behind her, she cleverly changes «she's so extremely—» into «—likely to win».

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**Who acts:** Alice, Queen · **What happens:** notice, listen, change, win · **To what, where:** Queen, likely

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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 (Alice, 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:6
# text = When she notices the Queen listening behind her, she cleverly changes «she's so extremely—» into «—likely to win».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
17	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	parataxis	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **notice** | present | Alice | the Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind she=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | present | Alice |  |  | likely |  | cleverly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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**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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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