--- title: Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to wor… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to worse … Another smash-up only last week, and a bad one.» Who acts: Badger, old Toad. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 15 Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to worse … Another smash-up only last week, and a bad one.» **Who acts:** Badger, old Toad · **What happens:** ask, go on · **To what, where:** Rat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Badger, old Toad), 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:15 # text = Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to worse … Another smash-up only last week, and a bad one.» # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Badger badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 4 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 parataxis _ _ 22 … . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 23 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 smash smash NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Badger | the Rat | | | week | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | present · progressive | old Toad | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:15`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/14/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)