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title: The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors by this time, sitting round the fire.» Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 14

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The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors by this time, sitting round the fire.»

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** say, be, sit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:14
# text = The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors by this time, sitting round the fire.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	At	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
16	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Rat |  |  |  | season; time | all, indoors, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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