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title: Do you take me for a dunce?» (dunce = a stupid pupil). — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you take me for a dunce?» (dunce = a stupid pupil). Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 20

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Do you take me for a dunce?» (dunce = a stupid pupil).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:20
# text = Do you take me for a dunce?» (dunce = a stupid pupil).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.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	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dunce	dunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dunce	dunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=disagree, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · do-support | you | me |  |  |  | for a dunce | 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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:20`.

**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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