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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:24 # text = Toad's song!», Toad shook his head, raised one paw in mild protest, and offered them delicacies (special tasty food) and polite small-talk. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 delicacies delicacy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 24 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** *in a quote* | past | Toad's song | Toad's head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **raise** *in a quote* | past | Toad's song *not said here* | one paw | | mild protest | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in protest=Destination | | 3 | **offer** *in a quote* | past | Toad's song *not said here* | delicacies and polite small talk | speech | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal delicacy=Theme | | 4 | **sing** | | Toad | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. 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