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title: In the middle of the court is «a table, with a large dish of tarts u… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the court is «a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it» (tarts = small pastries with jam or fruit). 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 with its dep
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 15

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In the middle of the court is «a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it» (tarts = small pastries with jam or fruit).

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** table, middle

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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: 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:15
# text = In the middle of the court is «a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it» (tarts = small pastries with jam or fruit).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pastries	pastry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a table |  | the middle of the court |  | with a large dish of tarts upon dish | 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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:15`.

**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): 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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