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title: Badger: «a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it» peered out of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger: «a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it» peered out of a hedge, grunted «H'm! Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 21

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Badger: «a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it» peered out of a hedge, grunted «H'm!

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** peer, grunt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 (Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:21
# text = Badger: «a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it» peered out of a hedge, grunted «H'm!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.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	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stripy	stripy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	grunted	grunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
22	H	H	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
23	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	dep	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- 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 | **peer** | past | Badger and high shoulders behind foot |  |  |  |  | out a hedge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out hedge=Theme |
| 2 | **grunt** | past | Badger and high shoulders behind foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:21`.

**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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