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title: The pool has become crowded with "a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an E… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The pool has become crowded with "a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet": a Lory is a small bright parrot, an Eaglet is a young eagle, and the Dodo is a big bird that died out long ago. Who acts: pool, Lory, Eaglet, Dodo. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 20

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The pool has become crowded with "a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet": a Lory is a small bright parrot, an Eaglet is a young eagle, and the Dodo is a big bird that died out long ago.

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**Who acts:** pool, Lory, Eaglet, Dodo, big bird · **What happens:** become, be, die out · **To what, where:** small bright parrot, young eagle, big bird

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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 (pool, Lory, Eaglet, Dodo), 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:20
# text = The pool has become crowded with "a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet": a Lory is a small bright parrot, an Eaglet is a young eagle, and the Dodo is a big bird that died out long ago.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dodo	dodo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lory	lory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Eaglet	eaglet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lory	lory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Eaglet	eaglet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	out	out	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
47	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | the pool |  |  |  |  | crowded *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a Lory | a small bright parrot and a young eagle and a big bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a Eaglet | a young eagle and a big bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the Dodo | a big bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die out** | past | a big bird |  |  |  |  | ago, out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:20`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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