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title: They went away; wind and rain and growing trees buried it, and the b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: They went away; wind and rain and growing trees buried it, and the badgers moved back in. Who acts: builders, wind, badgers. 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 schoo
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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 5

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They went away; wind and rain and growing trees buried it, and the badgers moved back in.

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**Who acts:** builders, wind, badgers · **What happens:** go away, grow, bury, move back · **To what, where:** rain

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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 (builders, wind, badgers), 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:5
# text = They went away; wind and rain and growing trees buried it, and the badgers moved back in.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go away** | past | builders *= builder* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bury** | past | wind and rain and growing trees | rain |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **move back** | past | the badgers |  |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-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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