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title: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is a book you can read twice: onc… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics
description: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is a book you can read twice: once for the story, and once for the word games hidden in nearly every page. Who acts: Adventures, you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 0

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«Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is a book you can read twice: once for the story, and once for the word games hidden in nearly every page.

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**Who acts:** Adventures, you · **What happens:** be, read, hide · **To what, where:** book, word games, page

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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 (Adventures, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:0
# text = «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is a book you can read twice: once for the story, and once for the word games hidden in nearly every page.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Adventures	adventure	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | a book |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | can | you | a book *not said here* |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | the word games *not said here* |  | every page |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in page=Location |

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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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:0`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

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

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