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title: Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of ch… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children. Who acts: terrible grey Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» of the books course of Mova's
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 9

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Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children.

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**Who acts:** terrible grey Badger · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (terrible grey Badger), 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:9
# text = Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **is** | present | the terrible grey Badger |  |  |  |  | of children; fond *property* | tree rules |

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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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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