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title: Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them roll… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them rolled into the river! Who acts: Stoats, most. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 10

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Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them rolled into the river!

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**Who acts:** Stoats, most · **What happens:** wrestle, roll about, roll · **To what, where:** river

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (Stoats, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:10
# text = Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them rolled into the river!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.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): no change
1	Stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | past | Stoats and weasels |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll about** | past | Stoats and weasels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | past | most of stoats |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |

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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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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