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title: «You're very alike in many respects — particularly about the figure.… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: «You're very alike in many respects — particularly about the figure.» Toad, huffy: «I have a very elegant figure — for what I am.» She answers: «So has my aunt, for what she is.» Who acts: You, girl, aunt. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (th
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 11

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«You're very alike in many respects — particularly about the figure.» Toad, huffy: «I have a very elegant figure — for what I am.» She answers: «So has my aunt, for what she is.»

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**Who acts:** You, girl, aunt · **What happens:** be, have, answer · **To what, where:** many respects, Toad, elegant figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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 (You, girl, aunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:11
# text = «You're very alike in many respects — particularly about the figure.» Toad, huffy: «I have a very elegant figure — for what I am.» She answers: «So has my aunt, for what she is.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	huffy	huffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
34	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
38	So	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
48	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  | many respects |  | alike, particularly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | You *not said here* | Toad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the girl *= girl* | a elegant figure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | my aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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): R3-conj-first ×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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