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title: Some rooms are «mere cupboards, others nearly as broad and imposing… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some rooms are «mere cupboards, others nearly as broad and imposing as Toad's dining-hall» (imposing = big and grand). Who acts: rooms. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» of the books course of Mova's pr
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 15

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Some rooms are «mere cupboards, others nearly as broad and imposing as Toad's dining-hall» (imposing = big and grand).

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**Who acts:** rooms · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mere cupboards

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (rooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:15
# text = Some rooms are «mere cupboards, others nearly as broad and imposing as Toad's dining-hall» (imposing = big and grand).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	imposing	imposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	imposing	imposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | some rooms | mere cupboards and others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:15`.

**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, 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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