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title: Talk in this lesson: «yeah nah» = no; «sweet as» = great; «toque» (C… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «yeah nah» = no; «sweet as» = great; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «mid» = only so-so; «howay» (North East England) = come on; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station. Who acts: you, ». A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on t
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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 37

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Talk in this lesson: «yeah nah» = no; «sweet as» = great; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «mid» = only so-so; «howay» (North East England) = come on; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.

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**Who acts:** you, » · **What happens:** talk, =, come on, servo · **To what, where:** lesson, toque », » · **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 (you, »), 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:37
# text = Talk in this lesson: «yeah nah» = no; «sweet as» = great; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «mid» = only so-so; «howay» (North East England) = come on; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
8	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	=	=	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
31	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	32	compound	_	_
32	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
33	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	_
40	howay	howay	X	RB	_	39	goeswith	_	_
41	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	goeswith	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
43	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	amod	_	_
44	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
45	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
47	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
48	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	_
52	servo	servo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
53	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	55	punct	_	_
55	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
56	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	55	punct	_	_
57	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
58	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	advcl	_	_
60	.	.	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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **=** | present | » | toque » and woolly hat |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come on** | infinitive | » *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **servo** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | » |  |  |  |  | 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:37`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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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