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description: The Dodo thinks with "one finger pressed upon its forehead", like the pictures of Shakespeare, and says "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." Who acts: Dodo, Everybody, all. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» of the book
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 21

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The Dodo thinks with "one finger pressed upon its forehead", like the pictures of Shakespeare, and says "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."

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**Who acts:** Dodo, Everybody, all · **What happens:** think, press, say, win, have · **To what, where:** one finger, prizes · **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 (Dodo, Everybody, all), 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:21
# text = The Dodo thinks with "one finger pressed upon its forehead", like the pictures of Shakespeare, and says "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Dodo |  |  |  |  | with one finger; like the pictures of Shakespeare | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **press** *in a quote* | participle |  | one finger *not said here* |  |  |  | upon finger's forehead | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Dodo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **win** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | must | all | prizes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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, 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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