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title: Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ... A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 27

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Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...

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**What happens:** roll

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:27
# text = Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hedgerows	hedgerow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	downs	down	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
25	...	...	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 | **roll** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:27`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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