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title: Talk in this lesson: «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «dre… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «cwtch» (Wales) = a cuddle, or a cosy little place; «adulting» = doing grown-up jobs; «it's giving horror film» = it feels like a horror film; «just now» (South Africa) = in a while. Who acts: you, pl
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 28

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Talk in this lesson: «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «cwtch» (Wales) = a cuddle, or a cosy little place; «adulting» = doing grown-up jobs; «it's giving horror film» = it feels like a horror film; «just now» (South Africa) = in a while.

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**Who acts:** you, place · **What happens:** talk, adult, do, grow up, give, feel · **To what, where:** lesson, grown jobs, horror film

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:28
# text = Talk in this lesson: «ginnel» (North England) = a narrow alley; «dreich» (Scotland) = grey and wet; «cwtch» (Wales) = a cuddle, or a cosy little place; «adulting» = doing grown-up jobs; «it's giving horror film» = it feels like a horror film; «just now» (South Africa) = in a while.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
7	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
19	dreich	dreich	X	GW	_	35	nsubj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	_
25	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
30	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	1	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	adulting	adult	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
48	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
50	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	_
52	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=50:compound
53	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
54	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
55	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
59	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:compound
60	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:compound
61	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
62	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
65	like	like	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	_
69	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
70	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
71	just	just	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=81:advmod
72	now	now	ADV	RB	_	81	advmod	_	_
73	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	72	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=81:punct
74	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	76	punct	_	_
75	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	_
76	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	appos	_	_
77	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	76	punct	_	_
78	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	81	punct	_	_
79	in	in	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
80	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
81	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson | while |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **adult** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | you *not said here* | grown jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | place | horror film |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
| 6 | **feel** | present | place |  |  |  |  | like a horror film | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like film=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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:28`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×6, 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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