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title: She is sure she is not Ada, whose hair "goes in such long ringlets"… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: She is sure she is not Ada, whose hair "goes in such long ringlets" (long hanging curls), and fears being Mabel, who "knows such a very little". Who acts: Alice, hair, Mabel. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the books course o
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 16

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She is sure she is not Ada, whose hair "goes in such long ringlets" (long hanging curls), and fears being Mabel, who "knows such a very little".

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**Who acts:** Alice, hair, Mabel · **What happens:** be, not be, go, hang, fear, know · **To what, where:** Ada, such long ringlets, curls, Mabel, little

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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, hair, Mabel), 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:16
# text = She is sure she is not Ada, whose hair "goes in such long ringlets" (long hanging curls), and fears being Mabel, who "knows such a very little".
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	Ada	ada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	appos	_	_
21	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	Mabel	Mabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	35	det:predet	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Alice | Ada |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | hair |  |  | such long ringlets |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ringlet=Location |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund |  | curls |  |  |  | long *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient |
| 5 | **fear** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Mabel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Mabel | such little |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |

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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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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