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title: But the Mole gets jealous, jumps up, grabs the oars — and knocks the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Mole gets jealous, jumps up, grabs the oars — and knocks the Rat off his seat, legs in the air for the second time that day. Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship beg
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 3

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But the Mole gets jealous, jumps up, grabs the oars — and knocks the Rat off his seat, legs in the air for the second time that day.

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** get, jump up, grab, knock · **To what, where:** legs, oars, Rat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 (Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:3
# text = But the Mole gets jealous, jumps up, grabs the oars — and knocks the Rat off his seat, legs in the air for the second time that day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
30	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **get** | present | the Mole | legs in the air |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **jump up** | present | the Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grab** | present | the Mole *not said here* | the oars |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme |
| 4 | **knock** | present | the Mole *not said here* | the Rat |  |  | time | off Mole's seat | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rat=Patient off seat=Co-Patient |

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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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:3`.

**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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