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title: And the rabbits—some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the rabbits—some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot. Who acts: rabbits. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragm
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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 22

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And the rabbits—some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot.

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**Who acts:** rabbits · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mixed lot

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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 (rabbits), 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:22
# text = And the rabbits—some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot.
# 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): no change
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mixed	mixed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 a** | present | the rabbits | a mixed lot |  |  |  |  | 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:22`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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