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title: Badger does not mind table manners, because he «did not go into Soci… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger does not mind table manners, because he «did not go into Society» (Society = smart, polite company). Who acts: Badger, room. 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
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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 21

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Badger does not mind table manners, because he «did not go into Society» (Society = smart, polite company).

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**Who acts:** Badger, room · **What happens:** not mind, not go · **To what, where:** table manners, Society

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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, room), 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:21
# text = Badger does not mind table manners, because he «did not go into Society» (Society = smart, polite company).
# 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): no change
1	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	punct	_	_
20	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** **mind** | present · do-support | Badger | table manners |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | room |  |  | Society |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into society=Initial\_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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:21`.

**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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