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title: Badger: «I want some grub, I do» — the book calls this «that rather… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger: «I want some grub, I do» — the book calls this «that rather common way he had of speaking». Who acts: book. 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
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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 24

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Badger: «I want some grub, I do» — the book calls this «that rather common way he had of speaking».

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** want, call, have, speak · **To what, where:** grub, this, common way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (book), 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:24
# text = Badger: «I want some grub, I do» — the book calls this «that rather common way he had of speaking».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the book *= book* | some grub |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grub=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the book | this |  |  |  | that common way *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | book | that common way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:24`.

**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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