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title: Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable), and the twelve creatures in the jury-box are the jurors. Who acts: Alice, judge, crown, twelve creatures. A sentence of the lesson «Alice 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 3

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Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable), and the twelve creatures in the jury-box are the jurors.

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**Who acts:** Alice, judge, crown, twelve creatures · **What happens:** be, know, look, name, crown · **To what, where:** names, King, jurors, things, top

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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 (Alice, judge, crown, twelve creatures), 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:3
# text = Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable), and the twelve creatures in the jury-box are the jurors.
# 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
45	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	jurors	juror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the names of things from books |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the judge | the King and the jurors |  |  |  | because Alice's great wig | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | present | Alice's crown on top |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the twelve creatures in the jury box | the jurors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | things from books |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **crown** |  | Alice |  |  | top |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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:3`.

**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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