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title: Also: «Six boatloads of Rats, with pistols and cutlasses, will come… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also: «Six boatloads of Rats, with pistols and cutlasses, will come up the river» and land in the garden (a cutlass = a short curved sword). Who acts: Six boatloads. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and
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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 23

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Also: «Six boatloads of Rats, with pistols and cutlasses, will come up the river» and land in the garden (a cutlass = a short curved sword).

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**Who acts:** Six boatloads · **What happens:** come up, curve · **To what, where:** river

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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 (Six boatloads), 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:23
# text = Also: «Six boatloads of Rats, with pistols and cutlasses, will come up the river» and land in the garden (a cutlass = a short curved sword).
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
4	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	boatloads	boatload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cutlasses	cutlass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	32	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come up** *in a quote* | future | Six boatloads of Rats with pistols and cutlasses | the river |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme |
| 2 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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:23`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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