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title: Indeed, I almost hope not.» The Rat, missing the hint: «Well, I hope… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, I almost hope not.» The Rat, missing the hint: «Well, I hope not, too … You've been a fine bother to us all this time». Who acts: I, Rat, You. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» of the books course
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 23

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Indeed, I almost hope not.» The Rat, missing the hint: «Well, I hope not, too … You've been a fine bother to us all this time».

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**Who acts:** I, Rat, You · **What happens:** not hope, miss, be · **To what, where:** Rat, hint, fine bother, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 (I, Rat, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:23
# text = Indeed, I almost hope not.» The Rat, missing the hint: «Well, I hope not, too … You've been a fine bother to us all this time».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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 ×2
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hint	hint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
25	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bother	bother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **hope** | present | I | the Rat |  |  |  | almost, indeed *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **miss** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | the hint |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hint=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | present · perfect | You | a fine bother | us |  |  |  | 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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:23`.

**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 ×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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