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title: This is the seventh.» Toad's coach-house is «piled up to the roof—wi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the seventh.» Toad's coach-house is «piled up to the roof—with fragments of motor-cars, none of them bigger than your hat!» The Mole adds: «He's been in hospital three times», and the fines are «simply awful». Who acts: This, Mole, fines. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, ch
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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 20

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This is the seventh.» Toad's coach-house is «piled up to the roof—with fragments of motor-cars, none of them bigger than your hat!» The Mole adds: «He's been in hospital three times», and the fines are «simply awful».

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**Who acts:** This, Mole, fines · **What happens:** be, pile up, add · **To what, where:** seventh, coach house, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, Mole, fines), 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:20
# text = This is the seventh.» Toad's coach-house is «piled up to the roof—with fragments of motor-cars, none of them bigger than your hat!» The Mole adds: «He's been in hospital three times», and the fines are «simply awful».
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	parataxis	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
14	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
41	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	's	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	cop	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
54	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=56:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
55	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
57	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the seventh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pile up** | present · passive |  | Toad's coach house |  |  |  | to the roof; with fragments of motor cars | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fragment=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | Mole |  |  | hospital | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the fines |  |  |  |  | awful, simply *property* | tree rules |

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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:20`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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