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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Toad, motor boats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:10 # text = How sound you always are!» He promises a quiet life at Toad Hall — after a quick mention of a «brilliant idea» about motor-boats that makes the Rat stamp. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 sound sound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 4 always always ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mention mention NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 27 about about ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 stamp stamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | always, sound *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | Toad | a quiet life | | | after a quick mention of a brilliant idea about motor boats | at Toad | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | motor boats | the Rat stamp | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stamp=Product | | 4 | **mention** *in a quote* | | | a brilliant idea about motor boats | | | | | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/8/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/)