--- title: The ducks don't either, laughs the Rat — they say it's nonsense to s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The ducks don't either, laughs the Rat — they say it's nonsense to sit on banks making poems about other people. Who acts: ducks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ducks), 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:3 # text = The ducks don't either, laughs the Rat — they say it's nonsense to sit on banks making poems about other people. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 5 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 — - PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN _ 12 ccomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 21 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | | the Rat | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ducks *= duck* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | nonsense | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | banks | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | | 5 | **make** | gerund | | poems | | | | about other people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product | 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: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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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