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title: Alice has read about courts in books and proudly knows the judge by… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice has read about courts in books and proudly knows the judge by his wig and the twelve jurors in the jury-box, and then she watches the court break almost every rule of a fair trial. Who acts: Alice, Knave, fair trial. A sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 1

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Alice has read about courts in books and proudly knows the judge by his wig and the twelve jurors in the jury-box, and then she watches the court break almost every rule of a fair trial.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Knave, fair trial · **What happens:** read, know, watch, rule · **To what, where:** books, judge, court break

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world 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, Knave, fair trial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:1
# text = Alice has read about courts in books and proudly knows the judge by his wig and the twelve jurors in the jury-box, and then she watches the court break almost every rule of a fair trial.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.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): R5-strong ×2
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	jurors	juror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det
31	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **read** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  | books |  | about courts | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about court=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | Alice *not said here* | the judge |  |  |  | by Alice's wig and the twelve jurors in the jury box; proudly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer judge=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | present | Knave | court break |  |  | then |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** |  | a fair trial |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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**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): 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.

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