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title: Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, ca… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter, and barley-sugar (a hard sweet) makes children sweet-tempered. Who acts: pepper, people, children, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 13

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Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter, and barley-sugar (a hard sweet) makes children sweet-tempered.

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**Who acts:** pepper, people, children, Alice · **What happens:** make, temper, rule · **To what, where:** 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 (pepper, people, children, Alice), 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:13
# text = Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter, and barley-sugar (a hard sweet) 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sour	sour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	camomile	camomile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	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 | **make** | present | pepper | people |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **temper** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | children |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **temper** | participle | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:13`.

**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, 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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