--- title: Eight or ten of them stand in a half-circle in red woolly scarves, a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: Eight or ten of them stand in a half-circle in red woolly scarves, and «one, two, three!» they begin. Who acts: Eight, feet. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» of the books course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 15 Eight or ten of them stand in a half-circle in red woolly scarves, and «one, two, three!» they begin. **Who acts:** Eight, feet · **What happens:** stand, begin · **To what, where:** half circle, one This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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 (Eight, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:15 # text = Eight or ten of them stand in a half-circle in red woolly scarves, and «one, two, three!» they begin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nsubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 scarves scarf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:parataxis 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | Eight of feet | | | a half circle | | in red woolly scarves | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location | | 2 | **begin** | present | feet *= foot* | one | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | 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. **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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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