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title: The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left a door-scraper lying about in the wood, that's all! Who acts: Mole, someone, door scraper. 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 
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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 4

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The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left a door-scraper lying about in the wood, that's all!

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**Who acts:** Mole, someone, door scraper · **What happens:** not see, leave, lie · **To what, where:** door scraper, wood · **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 (Mole, someone, door scraper), 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:4
# text = The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left a door-scraper lying about in the wood, that's all!
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
14	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	scraper	scraper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **see** | can | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | someone | a door scraper |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraper=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a door scraper *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |

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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:4`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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