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title: I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived craze). Who acts: I, Mole. 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 dependency tree and t
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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 33

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I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived craze).

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**Who acts:** I, Mole · **What happens:** wonder, take up, live · **To what, where:** new fad · **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 (I, Mole), 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:33
# text = I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived craze).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Int
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fad	fad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fad	fad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	craze	craze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take up** | present · perfect | Mole | what new fad |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fad=Theme |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:33`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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