--- title: The jurors in the book write their names on slates «for fear they sh… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics description: The jurors in the book write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them», which is Carroll making fun of juries that do not pay attention. Who acts: jurors, Carroll, juries, books. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jurors, Carroll, juries, books), 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:19 # text = The jurors in the book write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them», which is Carroll making fun of juries that do not pay attention. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jurors juror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 slates slate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 Carroll carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 23 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 juries jury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | the jurors in the book | books's names | | slates | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on slate=Destination | | 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | should | jurors *= juror* | names *= name* | | | | for fear | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | Carroll | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | gerund | Carroll *not said here* | fun of juries | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | | 5 | **not** **pay** | present · do-support | juries | attention | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | | 6 | **name** | | books *= book* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:19`. **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. 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