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title: Toad: «Smart piece of work that! … Brain against brute force—and bra… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad: «Smart piece of work that! … Brain against brute force—and brain came out on the top». Who acts: Brain. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 16

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Toad: «Smart piece of work that! … Brain against brute force—and brain came out on the top».

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**Who acts:** Brain · **What happens:** come out · **To what, where:** Smart piece, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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 (Brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:16
# text = Toad: «Smart piece of work that! … Brain against brute force—and brain came out on the top».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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): R6-punct-agree ×4
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	dep	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
11	Brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	brute	brute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** *in a quote* | past | Brain against brute force | Smart piece of work *not said here* |  | the top |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient piece=Result |

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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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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