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title: Toad keeps his temper, though he finds their jokes «poor and clumsy». — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad keeps his temper, though he finds their jokes «poor and clumsy». Who acts: Toad, ideas. 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 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 23

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Toad keeps his temper, though he finds their jokes «poor and clumsy».

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**Who acts:** Toad, ideas · **What happens:** keep, find, temper, joke · **To what, where:** temper, jokes

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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 (Toad, ideas), 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:23
# text = Toad keeps his temper, though he finds their jokes «poor and clumsy».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **keep** | present | Toad | Toad's temper |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | Toad | ideas's jokes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic |
| 3 | **temper** |  | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **joke** |  | ideas *= idea* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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:23`.

**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. **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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