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title: It's expected of you—in fact, it's the rule.» Badger himself will or… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: It's expected of you—in fact, it's the rule.» Badger himself will order the Banquet; Toad must write the invitations. Who acts: pot, Badger, Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 20

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It's expected of you—in fact, it's the rule.» Badger himself will order the Banquet; Toad must write the invitations.

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**Who acts:** pot, Badger, Toad · **What happens:** expect, be, order, write · **To what, where:** pot, rule, fact, Banquet, invitations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (pot, Badger, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:20
# text = It's expected of you—in fact, it's the rule.» Badger himself will order the Banquet; Toad must write the invitations.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
16	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct
23	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **expect** | present · passive |  | pot |  |  |  | of you | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | pot | the rule |  | fact |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **order** *in a quote* | future | Badger  Badger | the Banquet |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme |
| 4 | **write** *in a quote* | must | Toad | the invitations |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:20`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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