--- title: For several weeks he refuses «his meals or intermediate light refres… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics description: For several weeks he refuses «his meals or intermediate light refreshments» (snacks between meals). Who acts: Toad. 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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:11 # text = For several weeks he refuses «his meals or intermediate light refreshments» (snacks between meals). # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 intermediate intermediate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 refreshments refreshment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 snacks snack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 16 between between ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | present | Toad | Toad's meals or intermediate light refreshments | | | week | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme | 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. **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:11`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/10/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/)