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title: Badger trusts Mole with one more job: march the prisoners upstairs a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger trusts Mole with one more job: march the prisoners upstairs and make them clean the bedrooms properly, with clean sheets, hot water and fresh soap. Who acts: Badger, prisoners. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five min
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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 11

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Badger trusts Mole with one more job: march the prisoners upstairs and make them clean the bedrooms properly, with clean sheets, hot water and fresh soap.

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**Who acts:** Badger, prisoners · **What happens:** trust, make, clean · **To what, where:** Mole, prisoners, bedrooms

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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 (Badger, prisoners), 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:11
# text = Badger trusts Mole with one more job: march the prisoners upstairs and make them clean the bedrooms properly, with clean sheets, hot water and fresh soap.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
12	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bedrooms	bedroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **trust** | present | Badger |  | Mole |  |  | with one more job | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient with job=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Badger *not said here* | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clean** | infinitive | prisoners *= prisoner* *not said here* | the bedrooms |  |  |  | with clean sheets and hot water and fresh soap; properly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bedroom=Patient with sheet=Instrument |

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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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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