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title: The lesson is about William the Conqueror, the English accepting him… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The lesson is about William the Conqueror, the English accepting him, and Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria; earls were powerful lords. Who acts: lesson, earls. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» of the books 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 10

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The lesson is about William the Conqueror, the English accepting him, and Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria; earls were powerful lords.

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**Who acts:** lesson, earls · **What happens:** be, accept · **To what, where:** Conqueror, lesson, English powerful lords

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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 (lesson, earls), 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:10
# text = The lesson is about William the Conqueror, the English accepting him, and Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria; earls were powerful lords.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
11	accepting	accept	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Edwin	Edwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Morcar	Morcar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	earls	earl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mercia	Mercia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Northumbria	Northumbria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	earls	earl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the lesson | the Conqueror and English powerful lords |  |  |  | about William | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** | gerund |  | lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | earls | English powerful lords |  |  |  |  | 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:10`.

**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, 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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