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description: Alice falls down the rabbit hole so slowly that she takes a jar of orange marmalade off a shelf on the way and puts it back further down. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics course of Mova's p
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# Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 0

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Alice falls down the rabbit hole so slowly that she takes a jar of orange marmalade off a shelf on the way and puts it back further down.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** fall down, take off, put back · **To what, where:** rabbit hole, jar, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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 (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:0
# text = Alice falls down the rabbit hole so slowly that she takes a jar of orange marmalade off a shelf on the way and puts it back further down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	marmalade	marmalade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
24	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	further	further	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | present | Alice | the rabbit hole |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result |
| 2 | **take off** | present | Alice | a jar of orange marmalade |  | the way |  | a shelf *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme |
| 3 | **put back** | present | Alice *not said here* | jar |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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