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(the court and the first witness), sentence 19 The jurors write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial» (a slate was a small board children wrote on with a slate-pencil). **Who acts:** jurors, slate, children · **What happens:** write, forget, be, write on, name · **To what, where:** names, slates, small board · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (jurors, slate, children), 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:19 # text = The jurors write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial» (a slate was a small board children wrote on with a slate-pencil). # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jurors juror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 slates slate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 slate slate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 on on ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 slate slate NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | the jurors | jurors's names | | slates | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent name=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | should | jurors *= juror* | names *= name* | | | before the end the trial of » | for fear | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | a slate | a small board | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write on** | past | children | a small board *not said here* | | | | with a slate pencil | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | jurors *= juror* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:19`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/17/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)