--- title: The Rat's sharpest point: «why choose to be a convict?» and «Do you… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat's sharpest point: «why choose to be a convict?» and «Do you suppose it's any pleasure to me... to hear animals saying... that I'm the chap that keeps company with gaol-birds?» (a gaol-bird = someone often in prison; gaol = jail) Who acts: you, fun, animals, chap. 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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, fun, animals, chap), 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:26 # text = The Rat's sharpest point: «why choose to be a convict?» and «Do you suppose it's any pleasure to me... to hear animals saying... that I'm the chap that keeps company with gaol-birds?» (a gaol-bird = someone often in prison; gaol = jail) # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 sharpest sharp ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 choose choose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 10 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 convict convict NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 suppose suppose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 ... ... PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 32 ... ... PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 gaol gaol NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 49 gaol gaol NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ _ 51 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 52 = = SYM SYM _ 53 punct _ _ 53 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 51 conj _ _ 54 often often ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 ; ; PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 gaol gaol NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 59 = = SYM SYM _ 60 punct _ _ 60 jail jail NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 61 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 51 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a convict | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | fun | any pleasure | animals *= animal* | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | animals | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | animals *= animal* | the chap | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | the chap | company | | | | with gaol birds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | | 9 | **point** | | the Rat | | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:26`. **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 ×2. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/)