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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 6

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Badger, he «warned» them: tonight a hundred badgers with rifles would attack from the paddock, six boatloads of Rats would land in the garden, and the fierce Death-or-Glory Toads would storm the orchard!

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**Who acts:** Badger, hundred badgers, six boatloads, fierce Death Toads · **What happens:** warn, attack, land, storm · **To what, where:** sentries, paddock, garden, orchard

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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 (Badger, hundred badgers, six boatloads, fierce Death Toads), 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:6
# text = Badger, he «warned» them: tonight a hundred badgers with rifles would attack from the paddock, six boatloads of Rats would land in the garden, and the fierce Death-or-Glory Toads would storm the orchard!
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:vocative|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rifles	rifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	paddock	paddock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	boatloads	boatload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
33	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
34	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Glory	glory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
39	Toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	storm	storm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- 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 | **warn** *speech: warn* *in a quote* | participle | Badger |  | sentries *= sentry* |  |  | Badger *vocative* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **attack** | would | a hundred badgers with rifles |  |  | the paddock | tonight |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **land** | would | six boatloads of Rats |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in garden=Destination |
| 4 | **storm** | would | the fierce Death Toads | the orchard |  |  |  |  | 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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