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title: Piles of «wheat, oats, barley, beech-mast and nuts» lie ready to be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Piles of «wheat, oats, barley, beech-mast and nuts» lie ready to be moved (beech-mast = the little nuts of the beech tree). Who acts: Piles. 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
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 15

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Piles of «wheat, oats, barley, beech-mast and nuts» lie ready to be moved (beech-mast = the little nuts of the beech tree).

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**Who acts:** Piles · **What happens:** lie, move

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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 (Piles), 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:15
# text = Piles of «wheat, oats, barley, beech-mast and nuts» lie ready to be moved (beech-mast = the little nuts of the beech tree).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
22	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
25	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	28	dep	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Piles of wheat and oats and barley and beech mast and nuts |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive · passive | Piles of wheat and oats and barley and beech mast and nuts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» |

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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:15`.

**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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