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title: Her husband has gone off with the dog to catch a rabbit for dinner a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her husband has gone off with the dog to catch a rabbit for dinner and is supposed to meet her at the next lock (a lock is a section of canal with gates that lifts or lowers boats). Who acts: husband, lock, gates. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adve
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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 25

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Her husband has gone off with the dog to catch a rabbit for dinner and is supposed to meet her at the next lock (a lock is a section of canal with gates that lifts or lowers boats).

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**Who acts:** husband, lock, gates · **What happens:** go off, catch, suppose, meet, be, lift · **To what, where:** rabbit, horse, next lock, section, boats

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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 (husband, lock, gates), 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:25
# text = Her husband has gone off with the dog to catch a rabbit for dinner and is supposed to meet her at the next lock (a lock is a section of canal with gates that lifts or lowers boats).
# 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): no change
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	lowers	lower	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
39	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **go off** | present · perfect | horse's husband |  |  |  |  | with the dog | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | horse's husband *not said here* | a rabbit |  |  |  | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **suppose** | present · passive | horse's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | horse's husband *not said here* | horse |  | the next lock |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a lock | a section |  |  |  | of canal; with gates | tree rules |
| 6 | **lift** | present | gates | boats |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 7 | **lower** | present | gates *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:25`.

**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): no change. **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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