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title: Alice and the animals climb out of the pool onto the bank, soaking w… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice and the animals climb out of the pool onto the bank, soaking wet, cross and uncomfortable, and argue about how to get dry; Alice even has a long squabble with a Lory who won't say how old it is. Who acts: Alice, Lory, squabble. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 0

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Alice and the animals climb out of the pool onto the bank, soaking wet, cross and uncomfortable, and argue about how to get dry; Alice even has a long squabble with a Lory who won't say how old it is.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Lory, squabble · **What happens:** climb, soak, argue, get, have, not say · **To what, where:** pool, long squabble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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, Lory, squabble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:0
# text = Alice and the animals climb out of the pool onto the bank, soaking wet, cross and uncomfortable, and argue about how to get dry; Alice even has a long squabble with a Lory who won't say how old it is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	soaking	soak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
23	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	squabble	squabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Lory	lory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **climb** | present | Alice and the animals |  |  | the pool |  | onto the bank | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out pool=Initial\_Location onto bank=Destination |
| 2 | **soak** | gerund | Alice and the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Alice and the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Alice and the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | present | Alice | a long squabble |  |  |  | with a Lory | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squabble=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | future | a Lory |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | squabble |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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