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title: The Rat: they have been «camping out in the open, in every sort of w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat: they have been «camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries». Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 20

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The Rat: they have been «camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries».

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** camp out, live, lie, watch, patrol, sort · **To what, where:** open, house, boundaries, weather

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:20
# text = The Rat: they have been «camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	dislocated	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rough	rough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	patrolling	patrol	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **camp out** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Mole |  |  | the open |  | in every sort of weather; the Rat *dislocated* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in open=Location |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | rough *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | night | hard *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **watch** *in a quote* | gerund | Mole *not said here* |  |  | your house |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over house=Location |
| 5 | **patrol** *in a quote* | gerund | Mole *not said here* | your boundaries |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boundary=Location |
| 6 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | weather |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:20`.

**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, 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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