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title: The Rat, «dubiously» (doubtfully): «Very good news indeed, if only—i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 22

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The Rat, «dubiously» (doubtfully): «Very good news indeed, if only—if only——».

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:22
# text = The Rat, «dubiously» (doubtfully): «Very good news indeed, if only—if only——».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dubiously	dubiously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	RB	_	2	parataxis	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:mark
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advcl	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:22`.

**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 ×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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