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title: That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This is the real life for a gentleman! Who acts: Toad, This. 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 with its d
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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 3

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That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This is the real life for a gentleman!

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**Who acts:** Toad, This · **What happens:** boast, be · **To what, where:** lonely common, real life · **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 (Toad, This), 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:3
# text = That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This is the real life for a gentleman!
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	common	common	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
16	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Toad |  |  | a lonely common under the stars | night |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the real life |  |  |  | for a gentleman | 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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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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