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title: Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might have been changed into. Who acts: that. 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 the pragmatic
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 15

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Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might have been changed into.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be, think, change · **To what, where:** great puzzle, Alice

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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 (that), 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:15
# text = Ah, that's the great puzzle!", and thinks of girls her age she might have been changed into.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | the great puzzle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of girls  girl's age | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** *in a quote* | might · perfect · passive |  | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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