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title: The Otter: «there are hundreds and hundreds of you … you could have… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Otter: «there are hundreds and hundreds of you … you could have taken him in». Who acts: hundreds, you. 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 sc
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 20

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The Otter: «there are hundreds and hundreds of you … you could have taken him in».

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**Who acts:** hundreds, you · **What happens:** be, take in · **To what, where:** Otter

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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 (hundreds, you), 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:20
# text = The Otter: «there are hundreds and hundreds of you … you could have taken him in».
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	PART	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **does** *in a quote* | present | hundreds of you and hundreds | the Otter |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take in** *in a quote* | could · perfect | you |  | Otter |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |

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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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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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