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title: Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feeling t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feeling the cold easily; «ginnel» (North England) = narrow alley between houses; «I'm dead» = that's so funny; «toque» (Canada) = woolly winter hat; «bairn» (Scotland, North East) = child. Who acts: you, home, that. A sentence of the lesson 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 29

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Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feeling the cold easily; «ginnel» (North England) = narrow alley between houses; «I'm dead» = that's so funny; «toque» (Canada) = woolly winter hat; «bairn» (Scotland, North East) = child.

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**Who acts:** you, home, that · **What happens:** talk, feel, be · **To what, where:** nesh, lesson, cold · **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 (you, home, that), 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:29
# text = Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feeling the cold easily; «ginnel» (North England) = narrow alley between houses; «I'm dead» = that's so funny; «toque» (Canada) = woolly winter hat; «bairn» (Scotland, North East) = child.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nesh	nesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	parataxis	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
51	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
55	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	_
57	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
58	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
59	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	60	punct	_	_
60	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=63:amod
63	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
64	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	60	punct	_	_
65	=	=	PUNCT	:	_	66	punct	_	_
66	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | nesh |  | this lesson |  | ginnel and narrow alley between houses *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | you *not said here* | the cold |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | road's home *= home* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | toque and woolly winter hat and bairn and child *obl*; funny *property* | tree rules |

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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:29`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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