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title: Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» they said. Who acts: washing, We, sentries. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» of the books course of Mo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 2

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Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» they said.

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**Who acts:** washing, We, sentries · **What happens:** want, do, not do, say · **To what, where:** washing, duty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (washing, We, sentries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:2
# text = Want any washing done to-day?» «We don't do any washing on duty,» they said.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **want** | infinitive |  | any washing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | any washing *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present · do-support | We | any washing |  | duty |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | sentries *= sentry* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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): R5-strong ×3, 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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