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title: The others are «Weasels—and stoats—and foxes»: «they break out somet… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The others are «Weasels—and stoats—and foxes»: «they break out sometimes ... you can't really trust them». Who acts: others, rabbits, you. 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 o
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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 26

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The others are «Weasels—and stoats—and foxes»: «they break out sometimes ... you can't really trust them».

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**Who acts:** others, rabbits, you · **What happens:** be, break out, not trust · **To what, where:** Weasels, rabbits

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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 (others, rabbits, 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:26
# text = The others are «Weasels—and stoats—and foxes»: «they break out sometimes ... you can't really trust them».
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
19	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** *in a quote* | present | the others | Weasels and stoats and foxes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break out** *in a quote* | present | rabbits *= rabbit* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **trust** *in a quote* | can | you | rabbits *= rabbit* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:26`.

**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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