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title: Next morning they come down very late and find two young hedgehogs e… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning they come down very late and find two young hedgehogs eating porridge. Who acts: fines, two young hedgehogs. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» of the books course of Mova's prim
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 10

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Next morning they come down very late and find two young hedgehogs eating porridge.

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**Who acts:** fines, two young hedgehogs · **What happens:** come down, find, eat · **To what, where:** two young hedgehogs, porridge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (fines, two young hedgehogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:10
# text = Next morning they come down very late and find two young hedgehogs eating porridge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.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	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come down** | present | fines *= fine* |  |  |  | morning | down, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | fines *= fine* *not said here* | two young hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | two young hedgehogs *not said here* | porridge |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |

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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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:10`.

**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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