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title: The prisoners must make the bedrooms comfortable: «sweep under the b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The prisoners must make the bedrooms comfortable: «sweep under the beds... clean sheets and pillow-cases... a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap». Who acts: prisoners. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes,
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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 31

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The prisoners must make the bedrooms comfortable: «sweep under the beds... clean sheets and pillow-cases... a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap».

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**Who acts:** prisoners · **What happens:** make, sweep · **To what, where:** bedrooms, beds · **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 (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:31
# text = The prisoners must make the bedrooms comfortable: «sweep under the beds... clean sheets and pillow-cases... a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bedrooms	bedroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
18	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
21	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
29	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | must | the prisoners | the bedrooms |  |  |  | a can of hot water and clean towels and fresh cakes of soap *obl*; comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sweep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | the beds and clean sheets and pillow cases |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bed=Trajectory |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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