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title: Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sens… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sensible. Who acts: listening. 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 tree 
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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 37

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Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sensible.

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**Who acts:** listening · **What happens:** be, listen · **To what, where:** women

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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 (listening), 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:37
# text = Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sensible.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
10	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **is a** | can |  | women and men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund |  |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | listening |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | 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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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