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title: Toad protests: «you wouldn't surely have Mr. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad protests: «you wouldn't surely have Mr. Who acts: you. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 12

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Toad protests: «you wouldn't surely have Mr.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not have · **To what, where:** Mr.

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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), 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:12
# text = Toad protests: «you wouldn't surely have Mr.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=disagree

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | would | you | Mr. |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr.=Patient |

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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:12`.

**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): 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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