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title: Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North / Midlands England) = feels the c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North / Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «our kid» = my brother or sister; «salty» = bitter, annoyed; «chur» (New Zealand) = thanks; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «I'm dead» = that's so funny. Who acts: you, Rat, that. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind i
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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 40

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Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North / Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «our kid» = my brother or sister; «salty» = bitter, annoyed; «chur» (New Zealand) = thanks; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «I'm dead» = that's so funny.

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**Who acts:** you, Rat, that · **What happens:** talk, feel, be · **To what, where:** kid, lesson, cold

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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 (you, Rat, that), 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:40
# text = Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North / Midlands England) = feels the cold easily; «our kid» = my brother or sister; «salty» = bitter, annoyed; «chur» (New Zealand) = thanks; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «I'm dead» = that's so funny.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nesh	nesh	X	XX	_	4	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
25	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	appos	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	bitter	bitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	chur	chur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
43	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	44	compound	_	_
44	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
46	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
49	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
50	dreich	dreich	X	XX	_	7	appos	_	_
51	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	53	punct	_	_
53	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
54	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	_
55	=	=	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	_
59	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	63	punct	_	_
61	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
64	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	_
65	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
66	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	69	nsubj	_	_
67	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	69	cop	_	_
68	so	so	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
69	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | our kid  my brother or sister |  | this lesson |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present |  | the cold |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

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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:40`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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