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title: The Mole: «I'll always stick to you, Rat ... — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole: «I'll always stick to you, Rat ... Who acts: Rat. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 35

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The Mole: «I'll always stick to you, Rat ...

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** stick · **To what, where:** you

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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: who acts (Rat), 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:35
# text = The Mole: «I'll always stick to you, Rat ...
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
13	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** *in a quote* | future | Rat |  | you |  |  | Rat *vocative*; always *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Patient |

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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: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 ×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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