--- title: Older animals often wait the longest at rescue centres, though they… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: Older animals often wait the longest at rescue centres, though they are usually calm, trained and happy with a quiet life. Who acts: Older animals, centres. 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 depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/) / 19 # Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 19 Older animals often wait the longest at rescue centres, though they are usually calm, trained and happy with a quiet life. **Who acts:** Older animals, centres · **What happens:** wait, be, train · **To what, where:** longest, rescue centres 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 (Older animals, centres), 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:19 # text = Older animals often wait the longest at rescue centres, though they are usually calm, trained and happy with a quiet life. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 though though SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | Older animals | the longest | | rescue centres | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | centres *= centre* | | | | | calm, usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **train** | participle | centres *= centre* *not said here* | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be** | | centres *= centre* *not said here* | | | | | with a quiet life | tree rules | 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:19`. **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 ×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. 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