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title: Talk in this lesson: «gurt» (West Country, England) = great, big; «p… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «gurt» (West Country, England) = great, big; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «grand» (Ireland) = fine; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, US) = you all; «delulu» = dreaming, not facing reality. Who acts: you, delulu. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 
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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 36

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Talk in this lesson: «gurt» (West Country, England) = great, big; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «grand» (Ireland) = fine; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, US) = you all; «delulu» = dreaming, not facing reality.

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**Who acts:** you, delulu · **What happens:** talk, gurt, do, dream, not face · **To what, where:** lesson, », job », reality · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, delulu), 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:36
# text = Talk in this lesson: «gurt» (West Country, England) = great, big; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «grand» (Ireland) = fine; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, US) = you all; «delulu» = dreaming, not facing reality.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gurt	gurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	punct	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod
22	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	30	punct	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	39	punct	_	_
39	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
41	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	yinz	yinz	PROPN	NNP	_	39	parataxis	_	_
43	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	list	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
49	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	42	punct	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	advcl	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	nmod:unmarked	_	_
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
53	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	_
54	delulu	delulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	57	nsubj	_	_
55	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
56	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	parataxis	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	conj	_	_
61	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gurt** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | job » and grand » *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dream** | gerund | delulu |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **face** | gerund | delulu *not said here* | reality |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reality=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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**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:36`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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