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title: Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Gr… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Grammar "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"; "O Mouse" is the old way of calling to someone. Who acts: Alice, O Mouse, old way. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 13

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Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Grammar "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"; "O Mouse" is the old way of calling to someone.

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**Who acts:** Alice, O Mouse, old way · **What happens:** say, see, be, call · **To what, where:** mouse, Latin Grammar, old way, someone · **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, O Mouse, old way), 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:13
# text = Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Grammar "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"; "O Mouse" is the old way of calling to someone.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
29	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	34	discourse	_	_
34	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
39	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Mouse	mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
46	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	47	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | past | Alice | a mouse of a mouse |  | Alice's brother's Latin Grammar |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | O Mouse | the old way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | the old way *not said here* |  | someone |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient |

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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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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