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title: «Mechanically» (like a machine, without thinking) the Rat repacked t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 16

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«Mechanically» (like a machine, without thinking) the Rat repacked the basket, went home, put «a few small necessaries and special treasures» in a satchel, chose «a stout stick for his wayfaring», and stepped out «just as the Mole appeared at the door».

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**Who acts:** Rat, Mole · **What happens:** think, repack, go, put, choose, step out · **To what, where:** basket, few small necessaries, satchel, stout stick, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rat, Mole), 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:16
# text = «Mechanically» (like a machine, without thinking) the Rat repacked the basket, went home, put «a few small necessaries and special treasures» in a satchel, chose «a stout stick for his wayfaring», and stepped out «just as the Mole appeared at the door».
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
2	Mechanically	mechanically	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	repacked	repack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	necessaries	necessary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	satchel	satchel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	stout	stout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
39	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	wayfaring	wayfaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
49	just	just	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:conj
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repack** | past | the Rat | the basket |  |  |  | mechanically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past |  | a few small necessaries and special treasures |  | a satchel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent necessary=Theme in satchel=Destination |
| 5 | **choose** | past |  | a stout stick |  |  |  | for Rat's wayfaring | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for wayfaring=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **step out** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | the Mole |  |  | the door |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |

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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:16`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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