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title: I'm more in the water than out of it most days» — kind understatemen… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: I'm more in the water than out of it most days» — kind understatement that makes the Mole feel better. Who acts: I, kind understatement, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 22

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I'm more in the water than out of it most days» — kind understatement that makes the Mole feel better.

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**Who acts:** I, kind understatement, Mole · **What happens:** be, make, feel · **To what, where:** water, Mole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (I, kind understatement, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:22
# text = I'm more in the water than out of it most days» — kind understatement that makes the Mole feel better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	understatement	understatement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **is** | present | I |  |  | the water | day | out water; kind understatement *obl*; more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | kind understatement | the Mole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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