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title: Badger shows them to a room half full of apples, potatoes, nuts and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger shows them to a room half full of apples, potatoes, nuts and honey, with two little white beds smelling of lavender. Who acts: Badger, two little white beds. 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 hed
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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 9

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Badger shows them to a room half full of apples, potatoes, nuts and honey, with two little white beds smelling of lavender.

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**Who acts:** Badger, two little white beds · **What happens:** show, smell · **To what, where:** fines, room

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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 (Badger, two little white beds), 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:9
# text = Badger shows them to a room half full of apples, potatoes, nuts and honey, with two little white beds smelling of lavender.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	half	half	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
23	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lavender	lavender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Badger | fines *= fine* | a room |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to room=Recipient |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund | two little white beds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of lavender | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of lavender=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): 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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