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title: The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the p… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the poison has worked itself out of his system». Who acts: poison. 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 prima
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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 38

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The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the poison has worked itself out of his system».

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**Who acts:** poison · **What happens:** not leave, work · **To what, where:** Badger, poison, system

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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 (poison), 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:38
# text = The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the poison has worked itself out of his system».
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	unguarded	unguard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
13	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | Badger |  |  |  | a instant *obl:unmarked*; unguard *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the poison | poison |  | Badger's system |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material |

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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:38`.

**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, R8-pos-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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