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title: The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying»; rabbi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying»; rabbits in the hedgerows «held up their fore-paws, and said, "O my! Who acts: miles, smell, rabbits, dust. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» of the b
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 14

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The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying»; rabbits in the hedgerows «held up their fore-paws, and said, "O my!

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**Who acts:** miles, smell, rabbits, dust · **What happens:** kick up, be, hold up, say, smell · **To what, where:** dust, fore paws, my · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (miles, smell, rabbits, dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:14
# text = The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying»; rabbits in the hedgerows «held up their fore-paws, and said, "O my!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	satisfying	satisfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
15	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hedgerows	hedgerow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	O	of	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **kick up** | past | miles *= mile* | the dust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the smell of the dust |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the smell of the dust *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold up** | past | rabbits in the hedgerows | miles's fore paws |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot paw=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | rabbits in the hedgerows *not said here* | my |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent my=Topic |
| 6 | **smell** |  | the dust |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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