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title: The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by fem… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by female nurses». Who acts: female nurses. 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 with its depen
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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 35

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The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by female nurses».

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**Who acts:** female nurses · **What happens:** order about

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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: who acts (female nurses), 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:35
# text = The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by female nurses».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
5	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order about** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | female nurses |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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**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:35`.

**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): 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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