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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, Toad, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:11 # text = The Badger lays it out: Toad has ignored every warning, is wasting the money his father left him, and is giving all the animals a bad name with his crashes and quarrels with the police. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 ignored ignore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 wasting waste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:iobj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay out** | present | the Badger | chauffeur | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | | 2 | **ignore** | present · perfect | Toad | every warning | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | | 3 | **waste** | present · progressive | Toad *not said here* | the money | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | past | Toad's father | Toad | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **give** | present · progressive | Toad *not said here* | a bad name | all animals | | | with Toad's crashes with the police and quarrels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient name=Theme | | 6 | **crash** | | Toad | | | | | with the police | nom crash «event intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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. **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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:11`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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. 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