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title: At last, right above their heads, they hear cheering, stamping and g… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, right above their heads, they hear cheering, stamping and glasses clinking — the weasels' party. Who acts: Mole, glasses. 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 th
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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 8

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At last, right above their heads, they hear cheering, stamping and glasses clinking — the weasels' party.

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**Who acts:** Mole, glasses · **What happens:** hear, clink · **To what, where:** cheering, last

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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 (Mole, glasses), 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:8
# text = At last, right above their heads, they hear cheering, stamping and glasses clinking — the weasels' party.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	cheering	cheer	NOUN	NN	_	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stamping	stamp	NOUN	NN	_	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	clinking	clink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## 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 | Mole | cheering and stamping |  | last |  | above Mole's heads | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cheer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **clink** | gerund | glasses |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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