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title: Everyone eats, the field-mice tell the Mole all the local gossip, an… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone eats, the field-mice tell the Mole all the local gossip, and the Rat quietly makes sure everyone has plenty. Who acts: Everyone, field mice, 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
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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 10

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Everyone eats, the field-mice tell the Mole all the local gossip, and the Rat quietly makes sure everyone has plenty.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, field mice, Rat · **What happens:** eat, tell, make, have · **To what, where:** local gossip, Mole, plenty · **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 (Everyone, field mice, 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:10
# text = Everyone eats, the field-mice tell the Mole all the local gossip, and the Rat quietly makes sure everyone has plenty.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:ccomp
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the field mice | all local gossip | the Mole |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient gossip=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | quietly, sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | everyone | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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