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title: I'm a hatter.» A hatter is a person who makes or sells hats. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: I'm a hatter.» A hatter is a person who makes or sells hats. Who acts: I, hatter, person. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 27

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I'm a hatter.» A hatter is a person who makes or sells hats.

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**Who acts:** I, hatter, person · **What happens:** be, make, sell · **To what, where:** hatter, person, hats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, hatter, person), 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:27
# text = I'm a hatter.» A hatter is a person who makes or sells hats.
# 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): no change
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** | present | I | a hatter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a hatter | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sell** *in a quote* | present | a person *not said here* | hats |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

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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:27`.

**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): no change. **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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