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title: The Rat digs on and finds a shabby door-mat. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat digs on and finds a shabby door-mat. 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)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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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 5

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The Rat digs on and finds a shabby door-mat.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** dig on, find · **To what, where:** shabby door mat

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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:5
# text = The Rat digs on and finds a shabby door-mat.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	digs	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	shabby	shabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **dig on** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | present | the Rat *not said here* | a shabby door mat |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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