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title: It reminds her of the goldfish bowl she upset last week, and she qui… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: It reminds her of the goldfish bowl she upset last week, and she quickly scoops them back in, so quickly that she puts Bill the Lizard in upside down, waving his tail. Who acts: It, she. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsi
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 1

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It reminds her of the goldfish bowl she upset last week, and she quickly scoops them back in, so quickly that she puts Bill the Lizard in upside down, waving his tail.

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**Who acts:** It, she · **What happens:** remind, upset, scoop, put, wave · **To what, where:** her, goldfish bowl, them, Bill, tail

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 (It, she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:1
# text = It reminds her of the goldfish bowl she upset last week, and she quickly scoops them back in, so quickly that she puts Bill the Lizard in upside down, waving his tail.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 023-alice-alices-evidence-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
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reminds	remind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	upset	upset	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	scoops	scoop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | It |  | her *= she* |  |  | of the goldfish bowl | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of bowl=Topic |
| 2 | **upset** | past | she | the goldfish bowl *not said here* |  |  | week |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bowl=Experiencer |
| 3 | **scoop** | present | she | them *= they* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | present | she |  | Bill |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bill=Goal |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund | she *not said here* | Bill's tail |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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