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title: Talk in this lesson: «bairn» (Scotland) = child; «mate» = friend; «l… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «bairn» (Scotland) = child; «mate» = friend; «lowkey» = a bit; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «eh» (Canada) = right? Who acts: you. 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 Mov
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 22

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Talk in this lesson: «bairn» (Scotland) = child; «mate» = friend; «lowkey» = a bit; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «eh» (Canada) = right?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, mate · **To what, where:** lowkey, lesson

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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), 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:22
# text = Talk in this lesson: «bairn» (Scotland) = child; «mate» = friend; «lowkey» = a bit; «toque» (Canada) = woolly hat; «eh» (Canada) = right?
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×5
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
7	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	dep	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	punct	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mate	mate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	punct	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
29	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	36	punct	_	_
35	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
39	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	1	dep	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
44	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	1	punct	_	_
45	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | lowkey and a bit and woolly hat |  | this lesson |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mate** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:22`.

**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 ×5. **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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