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title: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics tea… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford. Who acts: Lewis Carroll. 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 with its
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 6

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Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.

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**Who acts:** Lewis Carroll · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pen name

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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 (Lewis Carroll), 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:6
# text = Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.
# 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	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Dodgson	Dodgson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	college	college	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | past | Lewis Carroll | the pen name |  |  |  | of Charles | 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:6`.

**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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