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title: Awful fun!» and makes stifled noises «k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p», l… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Awful fun!» and makes stifled noises «k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p», like snorts or soda-water bottles opening. Who acts: i, snorts. 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 boo
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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 29

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Awful fun!» and makes stifled noises «k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p», like snorts or soda-water bottles opening.

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**Who acts:** i, snorts · **What happens:** make, stifle, ck, open · **To what, where:** stifled noises

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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 (i, snorts), 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:29
# text = Awful fun!» and makes stifled noises «k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p», like snorts or soda-water bottles opening.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	stifled	stifle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
10	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
12	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	ck	ck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	ck	ck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	ck	ck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	poop	poop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	snorts	snort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  | stifled noises |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset noise=Beneficiary k=Product |
| 2 | **stifle** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ck** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** *in a quote* | gerund | snorts or water bottles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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:29`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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