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title: The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets.» (worth fi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets.» (worth fifty blankets = it warmed him more than fifty blankets could) Who acts: word, thought. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washin
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 17

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The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets.» (worth fifty blankets = it warmed him more than fifty blankets could)

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**Who acts:** word, thought · **What happens:** be, warm · **To what, where:** Toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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 (word, thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:17
# text = The word and the thought alone were worth fifty blankets.» (worth fifty blankets = it warmed him more than fifty blankets could)
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	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 | **is** | could · past | the word and the thought |  |  |  |  | worth fifty blankets *obl*; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **warm** *in a quote* | past | thought | Toad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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