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title: He, the March Hare and the Dormouse each give a different date for w… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: He, the March Hare and the Dormouse each give a different date for when the tea began, and the jury adds them all up as money. Who acts: Knave, tea, jury. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» of the books course of
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 11

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He, the March Hare and the Dormouse each give a different date for when the tea began, and the jury adds them all up as money.

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**Who acts:** Knave, tea, jury · **What happens:** give, begin, add up · **To what, where:** different date, teacup

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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 (Knave, tea, jury), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:11
# text = He, the March Hare and the Dormouse each give a different date for when the tea began, and the jury adds them all up as money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **give** | present | Knave | a different date |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the tea |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | the jury | teacup |  |  |  | as money | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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