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title: Through the door they hear the Chief Weasel making a speech about «o… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the door they hear the Chief Weasel making a speech about «our kind host, Mr. Who acts: glasses, Chief Weasel. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» of the books cour
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 11

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Through the door they hear the Chief Weasel making a speech about «our kind host, Mr.

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**Who acts:** glasses, Chief Weasel · **What happens:** hear, make · **To what, where:** Chief Weasel, door, speech

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (glasses, Chief Weasel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:11
# text = Through the door they hear the Chief Weasel making a speech about «our kind host, Mr.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
```

## 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 | **hear** | present | glasses *= glass* | the Chief Weasel |  | the door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weasel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Chief Weasel *not said here* | a speech |  |  |  | about our kind host | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product |

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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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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