--- title: Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boast… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.» Who acts: Rat, verse. 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 with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/) / 24 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 24 Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.» **Who acts:** Rat, verse · **What happens:** not be, be 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 (Rat, verse), 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:24 # text = Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.» # 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): no change 1 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ... ... PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 both both CCONJ CC _ 16 cc:preconj _ _ 16 boastful boastful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 conceited conceited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - hedged: yes - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Rat | | | | | clever, perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | may | verse | | | | | boastful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | verse *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:24`. **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): no change. **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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