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title: Alice wonders if it was only the pepper that made her so savage in t… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice wonders if it was only the pepper that made her so savage in the kitchen, and invents a rule of her own: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar makes them sour, and barley-sugar makes children sweet-tempered. Who acts: Alice, arm, pepper, people. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderlan
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 1

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Alice wonders if it was only the pepper that made her so savage in the kitchen, and invents a rule of her own: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar makes them sour, and barley-sugar makes children sweet-tempered.

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**Who acts:** Alice, arm, pepper, people, vinegar, barley sugar · **What happens:** wonder, be, make, invent, temper · **To what, where:** pepper, Alice, rule, people, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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, arm, pepper, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:1
# text = Alice wonders if it was only the pepper that made her so savage in the kitchen, and invents a rule of her own: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar makes them sour, and barley-sugar makes children sweet-tempered.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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): R5-strong ×3
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wonders	wonder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	invents	invent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
43	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
46	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | arm | the pepper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the pepper | Alice |  |  |  | savage *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 4 | **invent** | present | Alice *not said here* | a rule of Alice's own |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result |
| 5 | **make** | present | pepper | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **temper** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | present | vinegar | people |  |  |  | sour *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
| 8 | **make** | present | barley sugar | children |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **temper** | participle | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3. **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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