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title: Don't ever refer to it again, please.» — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't ever refer to it again, please.» Who acts: 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 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 32

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Don't ever refer to it again, please.»

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not refer · **To what, where:** sense

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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 (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:32
# text = Don't ever refer to it again, please.»
# 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	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	refer	refer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **not** **refer** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  | sense |  | ever; again |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-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:32`.

**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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