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title: Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensibl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensible Alice checks it is not marked "poison", tastes it, finds it delicious and shrinks to ten inches. Who acts: bottle, sensible Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and E
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 2

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Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensible Alice checks it is not marked "poison", tastes it, finds it delicious and shrinks to ten inches.

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**Who acts:** bottle, sensible Alice · **What happens:** label, drink, appear, check, not mark, taste · **To what, where:** bottle, ME

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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 (bottle, sensible Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:2
# text = Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensible Alice checks it is not marked "poison", tastes it, finds it delicious and shrinks to ten inches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	labelled	label	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	DRINK	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	ME	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **label** | participle |  | a bottle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ME |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | present · perfect | a bottle |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | present | sensible Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **mark** | present · passive |  | bottle |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 6 | **taste** | present | sensible Alice *not said here* | bottle |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 7 | **find** | present | sensible Alice *not said here* | bottle |  |  |  | delicious *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **shrink** | present | sensible Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to ten inches *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to inch=Result |

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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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:2`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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