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title: Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg an… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
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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 4

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Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg and puts a plaster on it.

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** give, wash, put · **To what, where:** dry clothes, plates, cut leg, plaster

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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:4
# text = Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg and puts a plaster on it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
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	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
10	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | present | Badger | dry clothes and slippers | plates *= plate* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clothes=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | present | Badger *not said here* | Mole's cut leg |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | present | Badger *not said here* | a plaster |  |  |  | on Badger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent plaster=Theme on it=Destination |

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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:4`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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