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title: Many old dogs have stiff, sore joints called arthritis; shorter, gen… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many old dogs have stiff, sore joints called arthritis; shorter, gentler walks, soft beds, ramps and medicine from the vet help. Who acts: Many old dogs, stiff sore joints, shorter gentler walks. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course o
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# Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 8

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Many old dogs have stiff, sore joints called arthritis; shorter, gentler walks, soft beds, ramps and medicine from the vet help.

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**Who acts:** Many old dogs, stiff sore joints, shorter gentler walks · **What happens:** have, call, help · **To what, where:** stiff sore joints, arthritis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many old dogs, stiff sore joints, shorter gentler walks), 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:8
# text = Many old dogs have stiff, sore joints called arthritis; shorter, gentler walks, soft beds, ramps and medicine from the vet help.
# 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): no change
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	gentler	gentle	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ramps	ramp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many old dogs | stiff sore joints |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | stiff sore joints *not said here* | arthritis |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | shorter gentler walks and soft beds and ramps and medicine from the vet |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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): no change. **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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