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title: Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and the Rat answers that the bank is too crowded: «Otters, kingfishers, dabchicks, moorhens» all wanting you to do something (a dabchick is a small diving water bird). Who acts: Rat, bank, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the W
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 20

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Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and the Rat answers that the bank is too crowded: «Otters, kingfishers, dabchicks, moorhens» all wanting you to do something (a dabchick is a small diving water bird).

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**Who acts:** Rat, bank, you · **What happens:** pass, answer, be, want, do · **To what, where:** word, you, something, small water bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» of the books 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 (Rat, bank, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:20
# text = Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and the Rat answers that the bank is too crowded: «Otters, kingfishers, dabchicks, moorhens» all wanting you to do something (a dabchick is a small diving water bird).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	dabchicks	dabchick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	moorhens	moorhen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	conj	_	_
40	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:nsubj
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	dabchick	dabchick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	ccomp	_	_
54	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  | a word |  |  |  | with *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the bank |  |  |  |  | crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | gerund | the bank *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | a small water bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:20`.

**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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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