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title: «How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!» th… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics
description: «How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!» thinks Alice — it's like being at school. Who acts: creatures, Alice, Gryphon. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova'
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 5

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«How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!» thinks Alice — it's like being at school.

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**Who acts:** creatures, Alice, Gryphon · **What happens:** order, make, repeat, think, be · **To what, where:** one, lessons, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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 (creatures, Alice, Gryphon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:5
# text = «How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!» thinks Alice — it's like being at school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-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 ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	order	order	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **order** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures | one |  |  |  | about *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures *not said here* | lessons |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | Gryphon |  |  | school |  |  | tree rules |

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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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:5`.

**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 ×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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