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title: The Mole's nose quivers… a quick run, a stop, a try back, then a sur… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole's nose quivers… a quick run, a stop, a try back, then a sure advance — over a ditch, through a hedge, across a field, and down a tunnel. Who acts: nose. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» of 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 11

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The Mole's nose quivers… a quick run, a stop, a try back, then a sure advance — over a ditch, through a hedge, across a field, and down a tunnel.

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**Who acts:** nose · **What happens:** quiver, try back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (nose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:11
# text = The Mole's nose quivers… a quick run, a stop, a try back, then a sure advance — over a ditch, through a hedge, across a field, and down a tunnel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	quivers	quiver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	conj	_	_
15	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **quiver** | present | the Mole's nose |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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