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title: The next day they make him work — and suddenly he's much less keen,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day they make him work — and suddenly he's much less keen, and has to be dragged out of his bunk. Who acts: miles, Toad. 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 wit
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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 9

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The next day they make him work — and suddenly he's much less keen, and has to be dragged out of his bunk.

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**Who acts:** miles, Toad · **What happens:** make, work, be, have, drag out · **To what, where:** Toad, bunk

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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, Toad), 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:9
# text = The next day they make him work — and suddenly he's much less keen, and has to be dragged out of his bunk.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
15	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bunk	bunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | miles *= mile* | Toad |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | keen, less, suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | miles *= mile* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drag out** | to-infinitive · passive | miles *= mile* *not said here* | Toad's bunk |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: bunk=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×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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