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title: After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from ni… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors. Who acts: heavy knock. 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 prim
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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 4

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After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors.

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**Who acts:** heavy knock · **What happens:** be

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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 (heavy knock), 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:4
# text = After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **be** | present | a heavy knock |  |  | there | after supper |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:4`.

**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. **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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