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title: The Mole agrees «So it is, so it is» — «No, it isn't!» cries the Rat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole agrees «So it is, so it is» — «No, it isn't!» cries the Rat — «Well then, it isn't, it isn't,» says the Mole soothingly: he changes his mind at once to keep the peace. Who acts: Mole, verse, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 22

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The Mole agrees «So it is, so it is» — «No, it isn't!» cries the Rat — «Well then, it isn't, it isn't,» says the Mole soothingly: he changes his mind at once to keep the peace.

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**Who acts:** Mole, verse, Rat · **What happens:** agree, be, change, keep, mind · **To what, where:** mind, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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, verse, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:22
# text = The Mole agrees «So it is, so it is» — «No, it isn't!» cries the Rat — «Well then, it isn't, it isn't,» says the Mole soothingly: he changes his mind at once to keep the peace.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.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 ×8, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cop
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
22	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
39	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
42	soothingly	soothingly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	45	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the Mole |  |  |  | then |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | cry, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  | say, soothingly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | present | Rat | Rat's mind |  |  |  | once *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Rat *not said here* | the peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 7 | **mind** |  | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:22`.

**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 ×8, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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