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title: Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen" (in Alice's day the times tables at school stopped at twelve times), and her geography too: "London is the capital of Paris". Who acts: sums, four times, times tables, London. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 17

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Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen" (in Alice's day the times tables at school stopped at twelve times), and her geography too: "London is the capital of Paris".

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**Who acts:** sums, four times, times tables, London, Alice · **What happens:** go, be, stop, sum · **To what, where:** five twelve, capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sums, four times, times tables, London), 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:17
# text = Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen" (in Alice's day the times tables at school stopped at twelve times), and her geography too: "London is the capital of Paris".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	thirteen	thirteen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl
30	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
42	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	parataxis	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Alice's sums |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | four times | five twelve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | four times |  |  |  |  | thirteen *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | past | the times tables at school |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | London | the capital |  |  |  | of Paris | tree rules |
| 6 | **sum** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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