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title: «The Wind in the Willows» is about a Water Rat, a Mole, an Otter and… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The Wind in the Willows» is about a Water Rat, a Mole, an Otter and a Toad who row boats, eat picnics and drive motor-cars. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» of the biology course of Mova'
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# The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 0

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«The Wind in the Willows» is about a Water Rat, a Mole, an Otter and a Toad who row boats, eat picnics and drive motor-cars.

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** row, eat, drive · **To what, where:** boats, picnics, motor cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» of the biology 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:0
# text = «The Wind in the Willows» is about a Water Rat, a Mole, an Otter and a Toad who row boats, eat picnics and drive motor-cars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wind	wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Willows	willow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	row	row	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
27	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
30	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | present | a Toad | boats |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a Toad *not said here* | picnics |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picnic=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | present | a Toad *not said here* | motor cars |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory |

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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:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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