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title: In the water he promises: «if ever I steal a motor-car again! — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the water he promises: «if ever I steal a motor-car again! Who acts: song. 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
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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 37

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In the water he promises: «if ever I steal a motor-car again!

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**Who acts:** song · **What happens:** promise, steal · **To what, where:** water, motor car · **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 (song), 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:37
# text = In the water he promises: «if ever I steal a motor-car again!
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=promise

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | song |  |  | the water |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **steal** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | song | a motor car |  |  | ever; again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme |

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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:37`.

**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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