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title: I like your spirit.» Toad starts slowly and carefully, and the gentl… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: I like your spirit.» Toad starts slowly and carefully, and the gentlemen clap: fancy a washerwoman driving so well! Who acts: I, Toad, gentlemen, washerwoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 2

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I like your spirit.» Toad starts slowly and carefully, and the gentlemen clap: fancy a washerwoman driving so well!

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**Who acts:** I, Toad, gentlemen, washerwoman · **What happens:** like, start, clap, fancy, driving · **To what, where:** spirit, washerwoman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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 (I, Toad, gentlemen, washerwoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:2
# text = I like your spirit.» Toad starts slowly and carefully, and the gentlemen clap: fancy a washerwoman driving so well!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	gentlemen	gentlemen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	clap	clap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	driving	driving	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | I | your spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** *in a quote* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **clap** *in a quote* | present | the gentlemen |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fancy** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a washerwoman |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washerwoman=Stimulus |
| 5 | **driving** *in a quote* | gerund | a washerwoman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:2`.

**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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