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title: I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.» (a sa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.» (a salon = a gathering of clever people for conversation) Who acts: I. 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»
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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 22

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I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.» (a salon = a gathering of clever people for conversation)

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell, have, be · **To what, where:** I, salon, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:22
# text = I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.» (a salon = a gathering of clever people for conversation)
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:ccomp
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	salon	salon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	salon	salon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a salon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salon=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:22`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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