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title: «it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: «it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble ahead» — etiquette = the rules of polite behaviour. Who acts: other, polite behaviour. 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
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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 28

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«it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble ahead» — etiquette = the rules of polite behaviour.

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**Who acts:** other, polite behaviour · **What happens:** be, dwell, rule · **To what, where:** possible trouble

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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 (other, polite behaviour), 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:28
# text = «it is quite against animal-etiquette to dwell on possible trouble ahead» — etiquette = the rules of polite behaviour.
# 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 ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | other |  |  |  |  | against animal etiquette | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | possible trouble |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trouble=Location |
| 3 | **rule** |  | polite behaviour |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:28`.

**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 ×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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