--- title: The Rat and the Otter laugh: Toad is always mad about something new… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat and the Otter laugh: Toad is always mad about something new — sailing, then punting, then a house-boat — and always gets bored of it. Who acts: Rat, Toad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, Toad), 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:7 # text = The Rat and the Otter laugh: Toad is always mad about something new — sailing, then punting, then a house-boat — and always gets bored of it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 11 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sailing sailing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 punting punt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 26 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 29 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 bored bore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | the Rat and the Otter | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | about something; always, mad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **punt** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | then | | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bore** | present · passive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | of boat; always *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | 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. **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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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. 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