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title: The Badger fears Toad will be so proud of his clever trick that he m… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Badger fears Toad will be so proud of his clever trick that he may do any silly thing now. Who acts: Badger, Toad, Rat. 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 w
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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 38

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The Badger fears Toad will be so proud of his clever trick that he may do any silly thing now.

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**Who acts:** Badger, Toad, Rat · **What happens:** fear, be, do, trick · **To what, where:** silly thing

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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 (Badger, Toad, Rat), 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:38
# text = The Badger fears Toad will be so proud of his clever trick that he may do any silly thing now.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **fear** | present | the Badger |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | future | Toad |  |  |  |  | of Rat's clever trick; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | may | Rat | any silly thing |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **trick** |  | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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): R8-pos-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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