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title: Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid glov… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves, which tells her she is growing small again. Who acts: Alice, little white kid gloves. 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 scho
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 5

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Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves, which tells her she is growing small again.

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**Who acts:** Alice, little white kid gloves · **What happens:** find, put on, tell, grow · **To what, where:** one, Alice · **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, little white kid gloves), 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:5
# text = Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves, which tells her she is growing small again.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **find** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **put on** | present · perfect | Alice | one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Rabbit's little white kid gloves |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent her=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **grow** | present · progressive | Alice |  |  |  | again | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): 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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