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title: The Mole moves «with something of the air of a sleep-walker», crosse… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole moves «with something of the air of a sleep-walker», crosses a dry ditch, scrambles through a hedge, crosses a field, and dives down a tunnel. Who acts: Mole. 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
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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 29

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The Mole moves «with something of the air of a sleep-walker», crosses a dry ditch, scrambles through a hedge, crosses a field, and dives down a tunnel.

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** move, cross, scramble, dive down · **To what, where:** dry ditch, hedge, field, tunnel

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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 (Mole), 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:29
# text = The Mole moves «with something of the air of a sleep-walker», crosses a dry ditch, scrambles through a hedge, crosses a field, and dives 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	walker	walker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	scrambles	scramble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dives	dive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | present | the Mole |  |  |  |  | with something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | present | the Mole *not said here* | a dry ditch |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=Patient |
| 3 | **scramble** | present | the Mole *not said here* |  |  | a hedge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hedge=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cross** | present | the Mole *not said here* | a field |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
| 5 | **dive down** | present | the Mole *not said here* | a tunnel |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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