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title: The rabbit: «‘What, us? do something? us rabbits?’» — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rabbit: «‘What, us? do something? us rabbits?’» 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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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 21

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The rabbit: «‘What, us? do something? us rabbits?’»

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**What happens:** do

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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: 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:21
# text = The rabbit: «‘What, us? do something? us rabbits?’»
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
6	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:21`.

**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): 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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