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title: He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning. Who acts: Badger, new powerful motor car. 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
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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 5

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He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.

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**Who acts:** Badger, new powerful motor car · **What happens:** hear, arrive · **To what, where:** Toad Hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Badger, new powerful motor car), 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:5
# text = He has heard that a new, extra-powerful motor-car is arriving at Toad Hall this very morning.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hear** | present · perfect | Badger |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **arrive** | present · progressive | a new powerful motor car |  |  | Toad Hall | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): 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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