--- title: Badger says he can't do anything now — it's winter, and in winter no… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger says he can't do anything now — it's winter, and in winter no animal is expected to do anything brave or busy. Who acts: Badger, car, animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, car, animal), 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:5 # text = Badger says he can't do anything now — it's winter, and in winter no animal is expected to do anything brave or busy. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Badger | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **do** | can | Badger | anything | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | car | winter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **expect** | present · passive | | no animal | | | winter | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no animal *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/4/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)