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title: Why not stay on quietly here, like us, and be jolly?» — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why not stay on quietly here, like us, and be jolly?» Who acts: you. 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 11

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Why not stay on quietly here, like us, and be jolly?»

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not stay, be

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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: 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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:11
# text = Why not stay on quietly here, like us, and be jolly?»
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **not** **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like us | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | jolly *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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