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title: The Rat admires the «little sleeping-bunks in the wall» and orders:… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat admires the «little sleeping-bunks in the wall» and orders: «you get a duster, Mole … and try and smarten things up a bit. Who acts: Rat, you. 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 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 21

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The Rat admires the «little sleeping-bunks in the wall» and orders: «you get a duster, Mole … and try and smarten things up a bit.

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**Who acts:** Rat, you · **What happens:** admire, order, get, try, smarten up · **To what, where:** little sleeping bunks, wall, duster, things

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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 (Rat, you), 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:21
# text = The Rat admires the «little sleeping-bunks in the wall» and orders: «you get a duster, Mole … and try and smarten things up a bit.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	admires	admire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	bunks	bunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
15	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	duster	duster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Mole	mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
24	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
26	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	smarten	smarten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admire** | present | the Rat | the little sleeping bunks |  | the wall |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present | you | a duster |  |  |  | Mole *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duster=Stimulus |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **smarten up** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | things |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:21`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-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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