--- title: Lessons: «Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on»; «they'… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Lessons: «Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on»; «they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day» (lessen = get smaller). Who acts: Lessons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lessons), 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:25 # text = Lessons: «Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on»; «they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day» (lessen = get smaller). # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 4 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 23 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lessen lessen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 lessen lessen VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 = = SYM SYM _ 36 punct _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Lessons *= lesson* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **lessen** *in a quote* | present | Lessons *= lesson* | | | | day | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **lessen** | infinitive | Lessons *= lesson* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | Lessons *= lesson* *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:25`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/24/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/)