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title: «Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time. Who acts: jury, King. 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 depen
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 5

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«Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time.

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**Who acts:** jury, King · **What happens:** let, consider, say · **To what, where:** jury, verdict · **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, King), 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:5
# text = «Let the jury consider their verdict,» says the King, for about the twentieth time.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the jury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** *in a quote* | infinitive | the jury *not said here* | verses's verdict |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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