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title: Mole and Badger were sure he would, somehow, so they moved into Toad… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mole and Badger were sure he would, somehow, so they moved into Toad Hall to keep it aired and ready for him. Who acts: Mole, prison. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 2

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Mole and Badger were sure he would, somehow, so they moved into Toad Hall to keep it aired and ready for him.

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**Who acts:** Mole, prison · **What happens:** be, move, keep, air · **To what, where:** prison

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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 (Mole, prison), 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:2
# text = Mole and Badger were sure he would, somehow, so they moved into Toad Hall to keep it aired and ready for him.
# 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): R7-rel-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	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	aired	air	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mole and Badger |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | Mole |  |  |  |  | into Toad *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toad=Result |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Mole *not said here* | prison |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **air** | participle | prison *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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