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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 (Toad, Rat, stoats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:12 # text = Toad apologises fully and promises to do nothing without the Rat's advice; the Rat says they must wait for Mole and Badger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 apologises apologise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fully fully ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 obj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present | Toad | | | | | fully *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | nothing | | | | without the Rat's advice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **wait** | must | stoats *= stoat* | | | | | for Mole and Badger | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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