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title: Toad!» (ingenious = very clever at inventing things) — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad!» (ingenious = very clever at inventing things) 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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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 31

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Toad!» (ingenious = very clever at inventing things)

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**What happens:** invent · **To what, where:** things

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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: 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:31
# text = Toad!» (ingenious = very clever at inventing things)
# 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): no change
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
6	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	8	punct	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	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 | **invent** *in a quote* | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result |

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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:31`.

**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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