--- title: Croquet is a lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long w… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: Croquet is a lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long wooden mallets through small hoops pushed into the grass; it became hugely popular in England in the 1860s. Who acts: Croquet, players. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/) / 10 # Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 10 Croquet is a lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long wooden mallets through small hoops pushed into the grass; it became hugely popular in England in the 1860s. **Who acts:** Croquet, players · **What happens:** be, hit, push, become · **To what, where:** lawn game, wooden balls, small hoops, grass This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 (Croquet, players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:10 # text = Croquet is a lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long wooden mallets through small hoops pushed into the grass; it became hugely popular in England in the 1860s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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 Croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 8 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mallets mallet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hoops hoop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 19 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 hugely hugely ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 1860s 1860s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Croquet | a lawn game | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hit** | past | players | wooden balls | | a lawn game | | with long wooden mallets; through small hoops | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ball=Patient with mallet=Instrument | | 3 | **push** | participle | | small hoops *not said here* | | the grass | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into grass=Destination | | 4 | **become** | past | Croquet | | | | | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): 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. 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