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title: O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole!» In chapter VI he had c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole!» In chapter VI he had called the Rat a fellow with «very little intelligence and absolutely no education». Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered t
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 10

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O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole!» In chapter VI he had called the Rat a fellow with «very little intelligence and absolutely no education».

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Rat, chapter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:10
# text = O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole!» In chapter VI he had called the Rat a fellow with «very little intelligence and absolutely no education».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **call** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Toad |  | the Rat | chapter |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient |

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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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, 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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