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title: «The goloshes were new, just bought for the winter, and the pimples… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The goloshes were new, just bought for the winter, and the pimples on their soles were fresh and sharp» — so the tracks were easy to read, «leading direct to the Wild Wood». Who acts: goloshes, pimples, tracks. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (t
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 30

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«The goloshes were new, just bought for the winter, and the pimples on their soles were fresh and sharp» — so the tracks were easy to read, «leading direct to the Wild Wood».

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**Who acts:** goloshes, pimples, tracks · **What happens:** be, buy, read, lead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (goloshes, pimples, tracks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:30
# text = «The goloshes were new, just bought for the winter, and the pimples on their soles were fresh and sharp» — so the tracks were easy to read, «leading direct to the Wild Wood».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pimples	pimple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
34	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	ccomp	_	_
35	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	39	compound	_	_
39	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the goloshes |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | participle | the goloshes *not said here* |  |  |  | winter |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the pimples on goloshes's soles |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the pimples on goloshes's soles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the tracks |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | to-infinitive | the tracks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lead** *in a quote* | gerund | the tracks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Wild Wood; direct *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to wood=Patient |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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