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title: The tunnel is «part vaulted, part hewn through solid rock» and seems… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tunnel is «part vaulted, part hewn through solid rock» and seems «miles» long; at the end he hides the mouth with «creepers, brushwood, and dead leaves». Who acts: tunnel, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and
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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 31

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The tunnel is «part vaulted, part hewn through solid rock» and seems «miles» long; at the end he hides the mouth with «creepers, brushwood, and dead leaves».

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**Who acts:** tunnel, Badger · **What happens:** be, vault, hew, seem, hide · **To what, where:** part, mouth, end

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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 (tunnel, Badger), 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:31
# text = The tunnel is «part vaulted, part hewn through solid rock» and seems «miles» long; at the end he hides the mouth with «creepers, brushwood, and dead leaves».
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	hewn	hew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the tunnel | part and part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vault** *in a quote* | participle |  | part and part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hew** *in a quote* | participle |  | part *not said here* |  |  |  | through solid rock | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through rock=Patient |
| 4 | **seem** | present | the tunnel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | present | Badger | the mouth |  |  | at the end | with creepers and brushwood and dead leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient at end=Location |

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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:31`.

**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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