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title: Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit». Who acts: jurors, Alice, it. 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 with 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 23

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Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit».

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**Who acts:** jurors, Alice, it · **What happens:** write, think, not matter · **To what, where:** important », bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jurors, Alice, it), 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:23
# text = Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit».
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound
22	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **write** | present | some jurors | important » and unimportant » |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | it | a bit |  |  |  |  | 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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:23`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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