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title: Then the King reads a rule from his note-book: «Rule Forty-two. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King reads a rule from his note-book: «Rule Forty-two. Who acts: King. 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 its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 6

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Then the King reads a rule from his note-book: «Rule Forty-two.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** read · **To what, where:** rule, note book

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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 (King), 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:6
# text = Then the King reads a rule from his note-book: «Rule Forty-two.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
14	Rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
15	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **read** | present | the King | a rule |  | King's note book | then |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rule=Topic from book=Source |

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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:6`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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