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title: Coming back when called, called recall, is one of the most important… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming back when called, called recall, is one of the most important things a dog learns, and a dog should always be rewarded for coming back, even if it took a long time. Who acts: Coming, dog, it. A sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 11

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Coming back when called, called recall, is one of the most important things a dog learns, and a dog should always be rewarded for coming back, even if it took a long time.

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**Who acts:** Coming, dog, it · **What happens:** come back, call, be, learn, reward, take · **To what, where:** recall, one, important things, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology 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 (Coming, dog, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:11
# text = Coming back when called, called recall, is one of the most important things a dog learns, and a dog should always be rewarded for coming back, even if it took a long time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
7	recall	recall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **come back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | recall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Coming | one |  |  |  | of the important things | tree rules |
| 5 | **learn** | present | a dog | the important things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 6 | **reward** | should · passive |  | a dog |  |  |  | always *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **come back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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