--- title: The Dodo's idea is a Caucus-race: everyone runs round a rough circle… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Dodo's idea is a Caucus-race: everyone runs round a rough circle, starting and stopping whenever they like, until after half an hour they are all dry. Who acts: idea, everyone, Duck. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, everyone, Duck), 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:4 # text = The Dodo's idea is a Caucus-race: everyone runs round a rough circle, starting and stopping whenever they like, until after half an hour they are all dry. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 Caucus caucus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 12 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 13 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 21 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 until until ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 29 det:predet _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Dodo's idea | a Caucus race | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | everyone | | | a rough circle | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round circle=Trajectory | | 3 | **start** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **stop** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | | | | | whenever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **like** | present | Duck | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** | present | Duck | | | | hour | all, dry *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. 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