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title: The Mole feels lively underground — he is a digger, and Badger's hou… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole feels lively underground — he is a digger, and Badger's house suits him; the Rat, used to a breezy river bedroom, feels sleepy and shut in. Who acts: Mole, house, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and 
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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 8

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The Mole feels lively underground — he is a digger, and Badger's house suits him; the Rat, used to a breezy river bedroom, feels sleepy and shut in.

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**Who acts:** Mole, house, Rat · **What happens:** feel, be, suit, use · **To what, where:** digger, Badger

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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 (Mole, house, Rat), 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:8
# text = The Mole feels lively underground — he is a digger, and Badger's house suits him; the Rat, used to a breezy river bedroom, feels sleepy and shut in.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	digger	digger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	suits	suit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	breezy	breezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  | lively *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Mole | a digger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **suit** | present | Badger's house | Badger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | past | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a breezy river bedroom | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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