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title: A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey mu… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey muzzle, stiff legs and cloudy eyes by the time you finish primary school. Who acts: dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 1

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A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey muzzle, stiff legs and cloudy eyes by the time you finish primary school.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** bounce around, start, have, finish · **To what, where:** school, grey muzzle, primary school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:1
# text = A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey muzzle, stiff legs and cloudy eyes by the time you finish primary school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bounced	bounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **bounce around** | past | a dog |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | you | school |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | may | a dog | a grey muzzle and stiff legs and cloudy eyes |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzzle=Patient |
| 4 | **finish** | present | you | primary school |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector school=Eventuality |

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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. **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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