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title: We four, with our sticks... shall clear the floor of all the lot of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: We four, with our sticks... shall clear the floor of all the lot of them in five minutes.» Who acts: We. 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 Mov
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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 31

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We four, with our sticks... shall clear the floor of all the lot of them in five minutes.»

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** clear · **To what, where:** floor

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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 (We), 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:31
# text = We four, with our sticks... shall clear the floor of all the lot of them in five minutes.»
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 | **clear** | shall | We | the floor of all lot of sticks |  |  | minute |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent floor=Source |

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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:31`.

**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): R6-punct-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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