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title: The moment he hears it is Ratty, the Badger's voice changes complete… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The moment he hears it is Ratty, the Badger's voice changes completely: «Come along in, both of you, at once.» He is in his dressing-gown with a candle, on his way to bed, but he pats their heads like a kind old uncle and leads them down a shabby passage to his kitchen. Who acts: he, moment, voice. 
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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 2

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The moment he hears it is Ratty, the Badger's voice changes completely: «Come along in, both of you, at once.» He is in his dressing-gown with a candle, on his way to bed, but he pats their heads like a kind old uncle and leads them down a shabby passage to his kitchen.

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**Who acts:** he, moment, voice · **What happens:** hear, be, change, come along, pat, lead down · **To what, where:** it, Ratty, dressing gown, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (he, moment, voice), 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:2
# text = The moment he hears it is Ratty, the Badger's voice changes completely: «Come along in, both of you, at once.» He is in his dressing-gown with a candle, on his way to bed, but he pats their heads like a kind old uncle and leads them down a shabby passage to his kitchen.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	along	along	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
29	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	pats	pat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	down	down	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	shabby	shabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the moment | Ratty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present | the Badger's voice |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come along** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | along, once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | voice |  |  | voice's dressing gown |  | with a candle; on voice's way to bed | tree rules |
| 6 | **pat** | present | voice | their heads |  |  |  | like a kind old uncle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer |
| 7 | **lead down** | present | voice *not said here* | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | 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:2`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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