--- title: Floods chase the Rat out of his house, and a big house like Toad's c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Floods chase the Rat out of his house, and a big house like Toad's can burn or leak; but underground there is no weather at all. Who acts: Floods, big house, weather. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best hom --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/10/) [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/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/) / 10 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 10 Floods chase the Rat out of his house, and a big house like Toad's can burn or leak; but underground there is no weather at all. **Who acts:** Floods, big house, weather · **What happens:** chase, burn, leak, be · **To what, where:** Rat, house This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (Floods, big house, weather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:10 # text = Floods chase the Rat out of his house, and a big house like Toad's can burn or leak; but underground there is no weather at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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 ×2 1 Floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 leak leak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 underground underground ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | present | Floods | the Rat | | Badger's house | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rat=Theme out house=Trajectory | | 2 | **burn** | can | Toad's big house | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leak** | infinitive | Toad's big house *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **be** | present | no weather at all | | | there | | underground *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:10`. **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 ×2. **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. 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