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title: The Mouse, who seems to be in charge, makes everyone sit in a ring a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse, who seems to be in charge, makes everyone sit in a ring and reads them "the driest thing" it knows: a boring history lesson about William the Conqueror. Who acts: Mouse, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» of 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 1

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The Mouse, who seems to be in charge, makes everyone sit in a ring and reads them "the driest thing" it knows: a boring history lesson about William the Conqueror.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, everyone · **What happens:** seem, be, make, sit, read, know · **To what, where:** charge, everyone, ring, driest thing, Alice

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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 (Mouse, everyone), 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:1
# text = The Mouse, who seems to be in charge, makes everyone sit in a ring and reads them "the driest thing" it knows: a boring history lesson about William the Conqueror.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Mouse *not said here* |  |  | charge |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the Mouse | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  | a ring |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location |
| 5 | **read** | present | the Mouse *not said here* | the driest thing | Alice |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | present | Mouse | the driest thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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:1`.

**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): R7-rel-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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