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description: Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!» (ere = before; irrevocable = that can never be taken back). Who acts: you, irrevocable moment. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» of the bo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 12

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Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!» (ere = before; irrevocable = that can never be taken back).

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**Who acts:** you, irrevocable moment · **What happens:** take, heed, pass, not take back · **To what, where:** Adventure, call, that

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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, irrevocable moment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:12
# text = Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!» (ere = before; irrevocable = that can never be taken back).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	heed	heed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
10	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
12	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound
14	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Adventure |  |  |  | ere *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **heed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the call |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | the irrevocable moment |  |  |  | now | ere *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **take back** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, 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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