--- title: Mole and Badger «argued from history»: no law had ever beaten «cheek… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole and Badger «argued from history»: no law had ever beaten «cheek and plausibility such as yours, combined with the power of a long purse» (plausibility = sounding believable; a long purse = lots of money). Who acts: Mole, law. 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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 (Mole, law), 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:14 # text = Mole and Badger «argued from history»: no law had ever beaten «cheek and plausibility such as yours, combined with the power of a long purse» (plausibility = sounding believable; a long purse = lots of money). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 argued argue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 plausibility plausibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 combined combine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 plausibility plausibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 34 = = SYM SYM _ 40 punct _ _ 35 sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 amod _ _ 36 believable believable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 41 = = SYM SYM _ 42 punct _ _ 42 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 appos _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | past | Mole and Badger | | | history | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **beat** | past · perfect | no law | cheek and plausibility | | | ever | such yours | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Theme | | 3 | **combine** *in a quote* | participle | no law *not said here* | | | | | with the power of a long purse | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with power=Co-Patient | | 4 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/12/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/)