--- title: Several big houses on the Thames are said to have inspired Toad Hall… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: Several big houses on the Thames are said to have inspired Toad Hall, but nobody knows for sure which one Grahame had in mind. Who acts: nobody, Grahame. 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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 (nobody, Grahame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:9 # text = Several big houses on the Thames are said to have inspired Toad Hall, but nobody knows for sure which one Grahame had in mind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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 ×2 1 Several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 11 inspired inspire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ _ 12 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 20 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 Grahame Grahame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Several big houses on the Thames | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **inspire** | to-infinitive · perfect | | Toad Hall | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hall=Experiencer | | 3 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | past | Grahame | which one | | mind | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): R5-strong ×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. 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