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description: The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal). Who acts: smell, telegraph wire. 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 prim
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 23

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The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).

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**Who acts:** smell, telegraph wire · **What happens:** be, signal · **To what, where:** fine filament

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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 (smell, telegraph wire), 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:23
# text = The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	filament	filament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	telegraphic	telegraphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 smell | the fine filament and the telegraphic current |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **signal** |  | a telegraph wire |  |  |  |  |  | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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