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title: He has spotted a sardine-opener — so there must be sardines somewhere. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: He has spotted a sardine-opener — so there must be sardines somewhere. Who acts: Mole, sardines. 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 with its dependency tr
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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 8

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He has spotted a sardine-opener — so there must be sardines somewhere.

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**Who acts:** Mole, sardines · **What happens:** spot, be · **To what, where:** sardine opener

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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 (Mole, sardines), 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:8
# text = He has spotted a sardine-opener — so there must be sardines somewhere.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sardine	sardine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	opener	opener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	sardines	sardine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **spot** | present · perfect | Mole | a sardine opener |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent opener=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | must | sardines |  |  | there |  | somewhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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