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title: The stay-at-homes ask: «Why this craving for change? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The stay-at-homes ask: «Why this craving for change? A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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 IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 10

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The stay-at-homes ask: «Why this craving for change?

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**What happens:** ask

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:10
# text = The stay-at-homes ask: «Why this craving for change?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
7	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	parataxis	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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