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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, 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:31 # text = The Chief Weasel's speech: «I should like to say one word 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Weasel weasel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | Badger | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | one word | | | | about our kind host | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **speak** | | the Chief Weasel | | | | | | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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:31`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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