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description: She keeps leaning her very sharp chin on Alice's shoulder, which Alice bears politely, though she doesn't like it. Who acts: sugar, Alice. 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 sc
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 3

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She keeps leaning her very sharp chin on Alice's shoulder, which Alice bears politely, though she doesn't like it.

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**Who acts:** sugar, Alice · **What happens:** keep, lean, bear, not like · **To what, where:** sharp chin, shoulder, chin

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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 (sugar, 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:3
# text = She keeps leaning her very sharp chin on Alice's shoulder, which Alice bears politely, though she doesn't like it.
# 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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bears	bear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | sugar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | sugar *not said here* | sugar's sharp chin |  | Alice's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chin=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **bear** | present | Alice | Alice's shoulder |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Alice | chin |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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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