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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 (father, son), 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:2 # text = But Toad's father found the old passage, cleaned it out and showed it to Badger — with orders not to tell his son, who «simply cannot hold his tongue», unless he was ever in a real fix. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 cleaned clean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 iobj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 simply simply ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 advcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Toad's father | the old passage | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic | | 2 | **clean out** | past | Toad's father *not said here* | passage | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **show** | past | Toad's father *not said here* | passage | Badger | | | with orders | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to badger=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Toad's father *not said here* | | Toad's son | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **hold** *in a quote* | can | Toad's son | Toad's tongue | | | | simply *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | father | | | a real fix | ever | | tree rules | 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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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. 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