--- title: The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the si… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the sides of the mounds — it's their last chance of a warm dry bed! Who acts: Rat, temper. 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 bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/) / 8 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 8 The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the sides of the mounds — it's their last chance of a warm dry bed! **Who acts:** Rat, temper · **What happens:** lose, stop, talk, dig, be, temper · **To what, where:** temper, sides, last chance 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, temper), 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:8 # text = The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the sides of the mounds — it's their last chance of a warm dry bed! # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 especially especially ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 — - PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | the Rat | Rat's temper | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dig** | infinitive | | | | the sides of the mounds | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 5 | **is a** | present | temper | mounds's last chance | | | | of a warm dry bed | tree rules | | 6 | **temper** | | Rat | | | | | | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-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,…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/6/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/)