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title: Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does. Who acts: Rat. 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 dep
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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 26

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Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** think, show off, have, do · **To what, where:** much

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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 (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:26
# text = Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Conceited	conceit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
10	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	12	punct	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  | much of Rat |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 2 | **show off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about what=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:26`.

**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): 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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