--- title: The Rat, chewing a straw: «did I overhear you say something about "w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat, chewing a straw: «did I overhear you say something about "we," and "start," and "this afternoon?"» Who acts: Rat, you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/) / 32 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 32 The Rat, chewing a straw: «did I overhear you say something about "we," and "start," and "this afternoon?"» **Who acts:** Rat, you · **What happens:** chew, overhear, say · **To what, where:** straw, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (Rat, you), 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:32 # text = The Rat, chewing a straw: «did I overhear you say something about "we," and "start," and "this afternoon?"» # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 chewing chew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 overhear overhear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chew** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | a straw | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Patient | | 2 | **overhear** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Rat | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | 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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:32`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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