--- title: The Otter knew «when people were in any fix (= trouble) they mostly… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Otter knew «when people were in any fix (= trouble) they mostly went to Badger, or else Badger got to know of it somehow». Who acts: Otter, people, Badger. 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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 (Otter, people, Badger), 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:16 # text = The Otter knew «when people were in any fix (= trouble) they mostly went to Badger, or else Badger got to know of it somehow». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 = = SYM SYM _ 13 case _ _ 13 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 else else ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | the Otter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | people | | | any fix | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | people | | Badger | | | mostly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to badger=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Badger | | | | | else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | | | | | of trouble; somehow *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | 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:16`. **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 ×3. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/11/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)