--- title: In the old days poor children were taught to call richer people «sir… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: In the old days poor children were taught to call richer people «sir»; today we'd say everyone deserves the same respect. Who acts: poor children, we, everyone. 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 hedgeho --- [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/37/) [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/) / 37 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 37 In the old days poor children were taught to call richer people «sir»; today we'd say everyone deserves the same respect. **Who acts:** poor children, we, everyone · **What happens:** teach, call, say, deserve · **To what, where:** poor children, richer people, same respect · **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 (poor children, we, everyone), 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:37 # text = In the old days poor children were taught to call richer people «sir»; today we'd say everyone deserves the same respect. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 17 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 22 deserves deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive | | poor children | | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | poor children *not said here* | | richer people and sir | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | we | | | | today | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **deserve** | present | everyone | the same respect | | | | | tree rules | 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:37`. **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…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/36/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)