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title: Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole'… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster». Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» of the books cour
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 19

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Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster».

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** give, bath, mend · **To what, where:** dressing gowns, plates, shin, cut

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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 (Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:19
# text = Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	dressing	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	sticking	sticking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | present | Badger | dressing gowns and slippers | plates *= plate* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gown=Theme |
| 2 | **bath** *in a quote* | past | Badger *not said here* | the Mole's shin |  |  |  | with warm water | tree rules |
| 3 | **mend** *in a quote* | past | Badger *not said here* | the cut |  |  |  | with sticking plaster | tree rules |

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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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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