--- title: Why dance jigs around a door-scraper?» — a door-scraper is a metal b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Why dance jigs around a door-scraper?» — a door-scraper is a metal bar by a front door for scraping mud off your boots. Who acts: you, door scraper, front door. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, door scraper, front door), 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:23 # text = Why dance jigs around a door-scraper?» — a door-scraper is a metal bar by a front door for scraping mud off your boots. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 2 advmod _ _ 2 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 jigs jig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 scraper scraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 scraper scraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 scraping scrape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 26 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | imperative | you *not said here* | jigs | | a door scraper | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a door scraper | a metal bar | | | | by a front door | tree rules | | 3 | **scrape** *in a quote* | gerund | a front door *not said here* | mud | | your boots | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mud=Theme off boot=Trajectory | 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. **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:23`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/22/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/)