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title: He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating character by repartees» (repartees = quick clever answers). Who acts: washerwoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» of the books
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 9

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He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating character by repartees» (repartees = quick clever answers).

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**Who acts:** washerwoman · **What happens:** be, not go, support · **To what, where:** town, humiliating character

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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 (washerwoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:9
# text = He is glad not to go through the town and «support this humiliating character by repartees» (repartees = quick clever answers).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	``	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	humiliating	humiliate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
15	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	repartees	repartee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	repartees	repartee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	_
22	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
23	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | washerwoman |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | washerwoman *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **support** *in a quote* | infinitive | washerwoman *not said here* | this humiliating character |  |  |  | by repartees and repartees | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer character=Stimulus |

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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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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