--- title: Many old dogs slowly lose their hearing, so hand signals and gentle… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: Many old dogs slowly lose their hearing, so hand signals and gentle touches work instead of shouting, and deaf dogs may get a fright if woken suddenly. Who acts: Many old dogs, hand signals, deaf dogs, vet. 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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 (Many old dogs, hand signals, deaf dogs, vet), 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:12 # text = Many old dogs slowly lose their hearing, so hand signals and gentle touches work instead of shouting, and deaf dogs may get a fright if woken suddenly. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 touches touch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 16 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 18 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 woken wake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **lose** | present | Many old dogs | vet's hearing | | | | slowly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Eventuality | | 2 | **work** | present | hand signals and gentle touches | | | | | instead shouting | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | may | deaf dogs | a fright | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus | | 4 | **wake** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | deaf dogs *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hear** | | vet | | | | | | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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