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title: They'd better not». — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: They'd better not». 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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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 25

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They'd better not».

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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: 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:25
# text = They'd better not».
# 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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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): 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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