--- title: Hearing the noise above, Badger said placidly (calmly): «They are go… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Hearing the noise above, Badger said placidly (calmly): «They are going it, the Weasels!» (going it = having a wild time) Who acts: Badger, others. 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, mod --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/) / 29 # 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 29 Hearing the noise above, Badger said placidly (calmly): «They are going it, the Weasels!» (going it = having a wild time) **Who acts:** Badger, others · **What happens:** hear, say, go, have · **To what, where:** noise · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Badger, others), 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:29 # text = Hearing the noise above, Badger said placidly (calmly): «They are going it, the Weasels!» (going it = having a wild time) # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 above above ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 placidly placidly ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 = = SYM SYM _ 27 punct _ _ 27 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | Badger *not said here* | the noise | | | | above *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Badger | | | | | placidly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | others *= other* | noise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | noise | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 5 | **have** | gerund | others *= other* *not said here* | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:29`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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