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title: The animals above «don't bother themselves about the past» or about… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals above «don't bother themselves about the past» or about «the future when perhaps the people will move in again». Who acts: animals, people. 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 cou
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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 23

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The animals above «don't bother themselves about the past» or about «the future when perhaps the people will move in again».

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**Who acts:** animals, people · **What happens:** not bother, move in · **To what, where:** animals

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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 (animals, people), 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:23
# text = The animals above «don't bother themselves about the past» or about «the future when perhaps the people will move in again».
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **bother** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the animals | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | about the past or the future | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 2 | **move in** *in a quote* | future | the people |  |  |  | again | perhaps *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:23`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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