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title: Just a pig—a plain pig!» (Here «pig» means a selfish, thoughtless pe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just a pig—a plain pig!» (Here «pig» means a selfish, thoughtless person.) Who acts: pig. 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 with its dependency tree and t
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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 22

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Just a pig—a plain pig!» (Here «pig» means a selfish, thoughtless person.)

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**Who acts:** pig · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** selfish thoughtless person

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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 (pig), 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:22
# text = Just a pig—a plain pig!» (Here «pig» means a selfish, thoughtless person.)
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
17	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	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 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | a pig | a selfish thoughtless person |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |

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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:22`.

**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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