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title: The Badger: «you've gone on squandering the money your father left y… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Badger: «you've gone on squandering the money your father left you (squander = waste), and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police». Who acts: you, father, your. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows,
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 34

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The Badger: «you've gone on squandering the money your father left you (squander = waste), and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police».

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**Who acts:** you, father, your · **What happens:** go, squander, leave, get, drive, smash · **To what, where:** money, you, us, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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, father, your), 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:34
# text = The Badger: «you've gone on squandering the money your father left you (squander = waste), and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	squandering	squander	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	squander	squander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
18	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25: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	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	driving	driving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	smashes	smash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **squander** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | your father | the money *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | us | animals in the district |  |  | by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom driving «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **smash** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom smash «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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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