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title: Talk in this lesson: «fixin' to» (southern US) = about to; «no cap»… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «fixin' to» (southern US) = about to; «no cap» = honestly, no lie; «bussin'» = really good; «canny» (North East England) = quite, nice; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour 
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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 37

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Talk in this lesson: «fixin' to» (southern US) = about to; «no cap» = honestly, no lie; «bussin'» = really good; «canny» (North East England) = quite, nice; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, fixin · **To what, where:** cap, lesson

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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), 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:37
# text = Talk in this lesson: «fixin' to» (southern US) = about to; «no cap» = honestly, no lie; «bussin'» = really good; «canny» (North East England) = quite, nice; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fixin	fixin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	7	dep	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	27	punct	_	_
24	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bussin	bussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	35	punct	_	_
34	really	really	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
38	canny	canny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
41	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:amod
42	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	39	punct	_	_
46	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	_
51	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
52	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
53	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	54	punct	_	_
54	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	_
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	_
56	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	58	punct	_	_
57	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | no cap |  | this lesson |  | no lie and bussin and servo *obl* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cap=Patient |
| 2 | **fixin** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:37`.

**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, R6-punct-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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