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title: She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep t… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall. Who acts: Alice, pool. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 11

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She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.

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**Who acts:** Alice, pool · **What happens:** shed, make, reach · **To what, where:** gallons, pool, half

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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 (Alice, pool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:11
# text = She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.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
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sheds	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **shed** | present | Alice | gallons of tears |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallon=Source |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | a pool |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pool=Product |
| 3 | **reach** | present | a pool | half |  |  |  | down the hall | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent half=Theme |

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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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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