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title: «Very well sung, boys!» cries the Rat. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Very well sung, boys!» cries the Rat. Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 1

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«Very well sung, boys!» cries the Rat.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** sing, cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:1
# text = «Very well sung, boys!» cries the Rat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl, act=evaluate, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | boys *vocative*; well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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