--- title: The Rat suggests a row, a stroll or a picnic; the field-mouse answer… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat suggests a row, a stroll or a picnic; the field-mouse answers: «Well, I think not to-day, thank you ... Who acts: Rat, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, I), 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:20 # text = The Rat suggests a row, a stroll or a picnic; the field-mouse answers: «Well, I think not to-day, thank you ... # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stroll stroll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 Well well INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 ... ... PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: character - polarity: pos - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=other, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | the Rat | a row and a stroll or a picnic | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent row=Topic | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | | | | day | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. **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:20`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/19/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/)