--- title: He thinks he is «a heaven-born driver» whom nobody can teach. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: He thinks he is «a heaven-born driver» whom nobody can teach. Who acts: Badger, nobody. 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 with its dependency tre --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 17 He thinks he is «a heaven-born driver» whom nobody can teach. **Who acts:** Badger, nobody · **What happens:** think, bear, be, teach · **To what, where:** born driver · **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, nobody), 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:17 # text = He thinks he is «a heaven-born driver» whom nobody can teach. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 13 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Badger | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Badger | a born driver | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | can | nobody | | a born driver | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | 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:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)