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title: When the Rat peeps out — «Snow is up ... or rather, down.» The scary… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Rat peeps out — «Snow is up ... or rather, down.» The scary wood has turned white and magical. Who acts: Rat, Snow, scary wood. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» of the books course of Mova's p
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 11

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When the Rat peeps out — «Snow is up ... or rather, down.» The scary wood has turned white and magical.

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**Who acts:** Rat, Snow, scary wood · **What happens:** peep out, be, turn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (Rat, Snow, scary wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:11
# text = When the Rat peeps out — «Snow is up ... or rather, down.» The scary wood has turned white and magical.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	peeps	peep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	_
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **peep out** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Snow |  |  |  |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present · perfect | the scary wood |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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