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title: At first it's fun: twigs crackle, logs trip him, fungus on stumps lo… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: At first it's fun: twigs crackle, logs trip him, fungus on stumps looks like funny faces. Who acts: Wood, twigs, logs, fungus. 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 wit
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 8

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At first it's fun: twigs crackle, logs trip him, fungus on stumps looks like funny faces.

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**Who acts:** Wood, twigs, logs, fungus · **What happens:** be, crackle, trip, look · **To what, where:** countryside

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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 (Wood, twigs, logs, fungus), 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:8
# text = At first it's fun: twigs crackle, logs trip him, fungus on stumps looks like funny faces.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crackle	crackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trip	trip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | present | Wood |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **crackle** | present | twigs |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** | present | logs | countryside |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | present | fungus on stumps |  |  |  |  | like funny faces | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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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