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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 33

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«"What's up, Ratty?" — "Snow is up," replied the Rat briefly; "or rather, down.

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**Who acts:** Snow, Rat · **What happens:** be, reply · **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 (Snow, Rat), 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:33
# text = «"What's up, Ratty?" — "Snow is up," replied the Rat briefly; "or rather, down.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
12	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
20	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Ratty *vocative*; up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Snow |  |  |  |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:33`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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