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title: Talk in this lesson: «craic» (Ireland) = fun, good times; «eejit» (I… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «craic» (Ireland) = fun, good times; «eejit» (Ireland) = idiot; «sweet as» (NZ) = great, no problem; «can or not» (Singapore) = is it possible?; «ate» = did it brilliantly. Who acts: you, problem. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum 
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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 38

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Talk in this lesson: «craic» (Ireland) = fun, good times; «eejit» (Ireland) = idiot; «sweet as» (NZ) = great, no problem; «can or not» (Singapore) = is it possible?; «ate» = did it brilliantly.

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**Who acts:** you, problem · **What happens:** talk, eejit, be, eat, do · **To what, where:** lesson, Ireland, problem · **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 (you, problem), 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:38
# text = Talk in this lesson: «craic» (Ireland) = fun, good times; «eejit» (Ireland) = idiot; «sweet as» (NZ) = great, no problem; «can or not» (Singapore) = is it possible?; «ate» = did it brilliantly.
# 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 ×1
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	craic	craic	X	FW	_	4	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	eejit	eejit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	=	=	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	NZ	NZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:advmod
44	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:expl
51	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
52	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	_
55	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
56	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	conj	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eejit** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | Ireland |  |  |  | idiot *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | problem |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | past |  | problem |  |  |  | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:38`.

**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 ×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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