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title: In playing cards the Knave is the old name for the Jack, and in the… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: In playing cards the Knave is the old name for the Jack, and in the book the four suits have jobs: spades are gardeners, clubs are soldiers, diamonds are courtiers and hearts are the royal children. Who acts: Knave, four suits, spades, diamonds. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 19

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In playing cards the Knave is the old name for the Jack, and in the book the four suits have jobs: spades are gardeners, clubs are soldiers, diamonds are courtiers and hearts are the royal children.

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**Who acts:** Knave, four suits, spades, diamonds, courtiers · **What happens:** play, be, have · **To what, where:** cards, old name, jobs, book, gardeners, soldiers

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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 (Knave, four suits, spades, diamonds), 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:19
# text = In playing cards the Knave is the old name for the Jack, and in the book the four suits have jobs: spades are gardeners, clubs are soldiers, diamonds are courtiers and hearts are the royal children.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
3	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	spades	spade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
32	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | the Knave *not said here* | cards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Knave | the old name |  |  |  | for the Jack | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the four suits | jobs and gardeners and clubs |  | the book |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | spades | gardeners |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | soldiers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | diamonds | courtiers and hearts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | courtiers and hearts | the royal children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:19`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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