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title: The White Rabbit always panics about time: «Oh dear! — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: The White Rabbit always panics about time: «Oh dear! Who acts: White Rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 12

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The White Rabbit always panics about time: «Oh dear!

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**Who acts:** White Rabbit · **What happens:** panic

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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 (White Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:12
# text = The White Rabbit always panics about time: «Oh dear!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	panics	panic	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **panic** | present | the White Rabbit |  |  |  | time | always *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:12`.

**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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