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title: Extras at the sea school: «French, music, and washing»; Alice's scho… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Extras at the sea school: «French, music, and washing»; Alice's school taught French and music but not washing, and she says «You couldn't have wanted it much, living at the bottom of the sea.» «Extras» were lessons parents paid more for. Who acts: school, You, Extras, parents. A sentence of the les
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 21

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Extras at the sea school: «French, music, and washing»; Alice's school taught French and music but not washing, and she says «You couldn't have wanted it much, living at the bottom of the sea.» «Extras» were lessons parents paid more for.

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**Who acts:** school, You, Extras, parents · **What happens:** teach, not wash, say, not want, live, be · **To what, where:** French, washing, bottom, lessons, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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 (school, You, Extras, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:21
# text = Extras at the sea school: «French, music, and washing»; Alice's school taught French and music but not washing, and she says «You couldn't have wanted it much, living at the bottom of the sea.» «Extras» were lessons parents paid more for.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Extras	extra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	dislocated	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	«	«	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	washing	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:acl:relcl
20	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
48	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
49	Extras	extra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
50	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
53	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
54	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
55	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	obj	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=54: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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Alice's school |  | French and music |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent french=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **wash** | gerund | Alice's school *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | school |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | could · perfect | You | washing *= wash* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Extras | lessons |  |  |  | Extras at the sea school « French and music and washing *dislocated* | tree rules |
| 7 | **pay** | past | parents | more |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |

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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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:21`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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