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title: This time it is serious: he has been missing «for some days now», th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: This time it is serious: he has been missing «for some days now», the Otters have hunted everywhere, and «young Portly hasn't learnt to swim very well yet». Who acts: sky, Mole, Otters, young Portly. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Da
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 9

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This time it is serious: he has been missing «for some days now», the Otters have hunted everywhere, and «young Portly hasn't learnt to swim very well yet».

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**Who acts:** sky, Mole, Otters, young Portly · **What happens:** be, miss, hunt, not learn, swim

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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 (sky, Mole, Otters, young Portly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:9
# text = This time it is serious: he has been missing «for some days now», the Otters have hunted everywhere, and «young Portly hasn't learnt to swim very well yet».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Otters	otter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Portly	portly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | **is** | present | sky |  |  |  | time | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | present · perfect · progressive | Mole |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hunt** | present · perfect | the Otters |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | young Portly |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **swim** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | young Portly *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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