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title: From one trip to the seaside Alice believes every English beach has… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: From one trip to the seaside Alice believes every English beach has bathing machines (little huts on wheels that were rolled into the sea for people to change in), children digging with wooden spades, lodging houses and a railway station. Who acts: Alice, English beach, people, children. A sentence 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 10

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From one trip to the seaside Alice believes every English beach has bathing machines (little huts on wheels that were rolled into the sea for people to change in), children digging with wooden spades, lodging houses and a railway station.

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**Who acts:** Alice, English beach, people, children · **What happens:** believe, have, roll, change, dig, lodge · **To what, where:** one trip, bathing machines, wheels, sea, houses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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, English beach, people, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:10
# text = From one trip to the seaside Alice believes every English beach has bathing machines (little huts on wheels that were rolled into the sea for people to change in), children digging with wooden spades, lodging houses and a railway station.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	believes	believe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	bathing	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
34	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	spades	spade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	conj	_	_
40	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **believe** | present | Alice |  |  | one trip to the seaside |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | every English beach | bathing machines and children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient |
| 3 | **roll** | past · passive |  | wheels |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
| 4 | **change** | to-infinitive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dig** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wooden spades | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spade=Instrument |
| 6 | **lodge** | gerund | children *not said here* | houses and a railway station |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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