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title: Kid gloves are gloves of soft leather from young goats ("kids"); wit… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kid gloves are gloves of soft leather from young goats ("kids"); with a fan, they were part of being smartly dressed, which is why the Rabbit is so upset to lose his. Who acts: Kid gloves, gloves, Rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and 
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 11

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Kid gloves are gloves of soft leather from young goats ("kids"); with a fan, they were part of being smartly dressed, which is why the Rabbit is so upset to lose his.

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**Who acts:** Kid gloves, gloves, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, dress, lose · **To what, where:** gloves, part, Rabbit

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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 (Kid gloves, gloves, Rabbit), 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:11
# text = Kid gloves are gloves of soft leather from young goats ("kids"); with a fan, they were part of being smartly dressed, which is why the Rabbit is so upset to lose his.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	smartly	smartly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Kid gloves | gloves |  |  |  | of soft leather; from young goats | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | gloves *= glove* | part |  |  |  | with a fan | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** | gerund · passive |  | part *not said here* |  |  |  | smartly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Eventuality |

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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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**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): 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.

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