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title: The idea of having the sentence first!» — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea of having the sentence first!» Who acts: idea. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 29

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The idea of having the sentence first!»

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**Who acts:** idea · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** sentence

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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 (idea), 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:29
# text = The idea of having the sentence first!»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | the sentence |  |  |  | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:29`.

**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): 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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