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description: There are servants everywhere: the Rabbit's housemaid Mary Ann, his gardener Pat, the Duchess's cook and the Frog-Footman who should open doors. Who acts: servants, Frog Footman. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the his
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 3

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There are servants everywhere: the Rabbit's housemaid Mary Ann, his gardener Pat, the Duchess's cook and the Frog-Footman who should open doors.

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**Who acts:** servants, Frog Footman · **What happens:** be, open · **To what, where:** doors

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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 (servants, Frog Footman), 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:3
# text = There are servants everywhere: the Rabbit's housemaid Mary Ann, his gardener Pat, the Duchess's cook and the Frog-Footman who should open doors.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
15	Pat	Pat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	Footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | servants |  |  | there |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | should | the Frog Footman | doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:3`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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