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title: He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited. Who acts: Toad. 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 7

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He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited.

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** be, not be

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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 (Toad), 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:7
# text = He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	though	though	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** |  | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | natured *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perhaps, though *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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.

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

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