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title: The Rat cried «Hooray!» and then «Hooray-oo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray!» and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat cried «Hooray!» and then «Hooray-oo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray!» and «fell to executing a feeble jig in the snow» (a jig = a lively hopping dance). Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 20

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The Rat cried «Hooray!» and then «Hooray-oo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray!» and «fell to executing a feeble jig in the snow» (a jig = a lively hopping dance).

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** cry, fall, execute · **To what, where:** feeble jig, snow » · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:20
# text = The Rat cried «Hooray!» and then «Hooray-oo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray!» and «fell to executing a feeble jig in the snow» (a jig = a lively hopping dance).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	Hooray	hooray	INTJ	UH	_	3	obj	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
10	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
11	Hooray	Hooray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	list	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
30	executing	execute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	jig	jig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	jig	jig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	hopping	hopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **execute** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | a feeble jig |  | snow » |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jig=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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**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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:20`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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