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title: In «The Wind in the Willows» the Wild Wood is full of stoats, weasel… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In «The Wind in the Willows» the Wild Wood is full of stoats, weasels and ferrets who whistle, patter and finally steal Toad Hall, while the wise old Badger lives deep underground and the field-mice sing carols in the snow. Who acts: Wild Wood, stoats, wise old Badger, field mice. A sentence of the 
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# The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 0

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In «The Wind in the Willows» the Wild Wood is full of stoats, weasels and ferrets who whistle, patter and finally steal Toad Hall, while the wise old Badger lives deep underground and the field-mice sing carols in the snow.

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**Who acts:** Wild Wood, stoats, wise old Badger, field mice · **What happens:** be, whistle, patter, steal, live, sing · **To what, where:** Wind, Toad, carols, snow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (Wild Wood, stoats, wise old Badger, field mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:0
# text = In «The Wind in the Willows» the Wild Wood is full of stoats, weasels and ferrets who whistle, patter and finally steal Toad Hall, while the wise old Badger lives deep underground and the field-mice sing carols in the snow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wind	wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Willows	willow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ferrets	ferret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	whistle	whistle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	patter	patter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
27	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
36	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
43	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
44	carols	carol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **is** | present | the Wild Wood |  |  | the Wind in the Willows |  | of stoats and weasels and ferrets; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle** | present | stoats and weasels and ferrets |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **patter** | present | stoats and weasels and ferrets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **steal** | present | stoats and weasels and ferrets *not said here* | Toad |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location toad=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | present | the wise old Badger |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the field mice | carols |  | the snow |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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