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title: Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are goi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are going to attack Toad Hall this very night, by way of the paddock.» Who acts: hundred bloodthirsty badgers. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwom
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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 22

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Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are going to attack Toad Hall this very night, by way of the paddock.»

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**Who acts:** hundred bloodthirsty badgers · **What happens:** go, attack · **To what, where:** Toad Hall

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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 (hundred bloodthirsty badgers), 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:22
# text = Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are going to attack Toad Hall this very night, by way of the paddock.»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	bloodthirsty	bloodthirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rifles	rifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	paddock	paddock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | a hundred bloodthirsty badgers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | a hundred bloodthirsty badgers *not said here* | Toad Hall |  |  | night | by way of the paddock | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Patient |

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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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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