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title: The kitchen is the warmest, safest room you can imagine: a big log f… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The kitchen is the warmest, safest room you can imagine: a big log fire, a red brick floor, high-backed benches, hams and onions hanging from the beams, plates winking on the dresser. Who acts: kitchen, you, high backed benches, plates. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, 
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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 3

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The kitchen is the warmest, safest room you can imagine: a big log fire, a red brick floor, high-backed benches, hams and onions hanging from the beams, plates winking on the dresser.

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**Who acts:** kitchen, you, high backed benches, plates · **What happens:** be, imagine, back, hang, wink · **To what, where:** safest room, beams, dresser

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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 (kitchen, you, high backed benches, plates), 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:3
# text = The kitchen is the warmest, safest room you can imagine: a big log fire, a red brick floor, high-backed benches, hams and onions hanging from the beams, plates winking on the dresser.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	warmest	warm	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hams	ham	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	winking	wink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	dresser	dresser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | can | you | safest room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot room=Theme |
| 3 | **back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | high backed benches and onions *not said here* |  |  | the beams and plates |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wink** | gerund | plates *not said here* |  |  | the dresser |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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