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title: That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women. Who acts: That. 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 dependency 
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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 36

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That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, tell, do · **To what, where:** old idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That), 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:36
# text = That is an old idea — that it is shameful for a man to be told what to do by women.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a old idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | a man *obl*; shameful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by women | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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:36`.

**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, R7-rel-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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