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title: The jury all write down «She doesn't believe there's an atom of mean… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: The jury all write down «She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it», but none of them tries to explain the paper. Who acts: jury, atom, none, paper. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» of th
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 21

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The jury all write down «She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it», but none of them tries to explain the paper.

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**Who acts:** jury, atom, none, paper · **What happens:** write down, not believe, be, try, explain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (jury, atom, none, paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:21
# text = The jury all write down «She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it», but none of them tries to explain the paper.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	atom	atom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	meaning	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 down** | present | the jury |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | jury |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a atom of meaning in meaning |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | present | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the paper |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:21`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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