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title: Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the rive… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall. Who acts: underground passage. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 0

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Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall.

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**Who acts:** underground passage · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (underground passage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:0
# text = Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a underground passage from the river bank |  |  | there |  |  | 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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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