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title: The Rat: «Simply hates Society!» — Society here means parties, visit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat: «Simply hates Society!» — Society here means parties, visitors and polite company. Who acts: Society. 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 23

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The Rat: «Simply hates Society!» — Society here means parties, visitors and polite company.

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**Who acts:** Society · **What happens:** hate, mean · **To what, where:** Society, parties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Society), 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:23
# text = The Rat: «Simply hates Society!» — Society here means parties, visitors and polite company.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hate** *in a quote* | present |  | Society |  |  |  | simply *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Society | parties and visitors and polite company |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic |

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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:23`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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