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title: Alice thinks "If they had any sense, they'd take the roof off." — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice thinks "If they had any sense, they'd take the roof off." Who acts: Alice, pebbles. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 11

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Alice thinks "If they had any sense, they'd take the roof off."

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**Who acts:** Alice, pebbles · **What happens:** think, have, take off · **To what, where:** sense, roof · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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, pebbles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:11
# text = Alice thinks "If they had any sense, they'd take the roof off."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.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): no change
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
4	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	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 | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | pebbles *= pebble* | any sense |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
| 3 | **take off** *in a quote* | would | pebbles *= pebble* | the roof |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme |

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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:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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