--- title: Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it looks like, it feels like; «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it looks like, it feels like; «wicked» (New England) = very; «heaps» (Australia, NZ) = lots; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «lekker» (South Africa) = great; «rad» (old US) = cool. Who acts: you, lesson, it. 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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 (you, lesson, it), 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:35 # text = Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it looks like, it feels like; «wicked» (New England) = very; «heaps» (Australia, NZ) = lots; «bostin'» (Black Country) = brilliant; «lekker» (South Africa) = great; «rad» (old US) = cool. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Talk talk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 17 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 24 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 parataxis _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 NZ NZ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 38 = = PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 bostin bostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 46 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 47 compound _ _ 47 Country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 = = PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 list _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 « « PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 53 lekker lekker ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 54 » » PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 56 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 appos _ _ 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 59 = = PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 conj _ _ 61 ; ; PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 « « PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ _ 63 rad rad NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 64 » » PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 67 punct _ _ 66 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 appos _ _ 68 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 67 punct _ _ 69 = = PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 conj _ _ 71 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | bostin | | this lesson | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | lesson | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **look** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **feel** | present | lesson | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:35`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/34/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/)