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title: A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop! — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop! Who acts: large tear. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 13

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A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!

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**Who acts:** large tear · **What happens:** roll down · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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 (large tear), 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:13
# text = A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	plop	plop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
14	plop	plop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **roll down** | present | a large tear | each |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:13`.

**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): R8-pos-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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