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title: Talk in this lesson: «tamping» (Wales) = furious; «proper job» (West… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «tamping» (Wales) = furious; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «bussin'» = really tasty; «mid» = just average; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into t
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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 39

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Talk in this lesson: «tamping» (Wales) = furious; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «bussin'» = really tasty; «mid» = just average; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** talk, tamp, do · **To what, where:** » petrol station, lesson, West Country

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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 (you), 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:39
# text = Talk in this lesson: «tamping» (Wales) = furious; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «bussin'» = really tasty; «mid» = just average; «servo» (Australia) = petrol station.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
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	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	tamping	tamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	1	parataxis	_	_
13	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
16	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
17	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	bussin	bussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	really	really	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	33	parataxis	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	just	just	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
43	servo	servo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	44	punct	_	_
49	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
51	.	.	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* | » petrol station |  | this lesson |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tamp** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | West Country *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:39`.

**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 ×2, 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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