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title: I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; calling someone «common» or «fat» to hurt them is unkind. Who acts: bargewoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 15

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I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; calling someone «common» or «fat» to hurt them is unkind.

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**Who acts:** bargewoman · **What happens:** not laugh, call, hurt, be · **To what, where:** I, someone, » · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (bargewoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:15
# text = I will not be laughed at by a bargewoman!» — rude, snobbish words; calling someone «common» or «fat» to hurt them is unkind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bargewoman	bargewoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	snobbish	snobbish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	csubj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **laugh** | future · passive | a bargewoman | I |  |  |  | rude snobbish words *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | gerund | a bargewoman *not said here* |  | someone |  |  | common » or « fat *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 3 | **hurt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | » |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | 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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-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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