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title: The school subjects are all school words gone wrong: Reeling and Wri… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The school subjects are all school words gone wrong: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing), Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), Mystery and Seaography, Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils, and Laughing and Grief. Who acts
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 9

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The school subjects are all school words gone wrong: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing), Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), Mystery and Seaography, Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils, and Laughing and Grief.

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**Who acts:** school subjects · **What happens:** be, go, stretch · **To what, where:** school words

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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 subjects), 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:9
# text = The school subjects are all school words gone wrong: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing), Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), Mystery and Seaography, Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils, and Laughing and Grief.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Reeling	reeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Writhing	writhing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Distraction	distraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Uglification	uglification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	subtraction	subtraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Seaography	seaography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Drawling	Drawling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	appos	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Fainting	Fainting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the school subjects | school words |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  | school words *not said here* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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, 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/).

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