--- title: Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off. Who acts: sheepdog, Grandad. A sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/13/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The cat that only likes Dad, and other…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/) / 13 # The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 13 Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off. **Who acts:** sheepdog, Grandad · **What happens:** nip, herd, lose, whistle off · **To what, where:** heels, sheepdog This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday 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 (sheepdog, Grandad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:13 # text = Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 sheepdog sheepdog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Bess Bess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 nips nip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 herding herd VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 lamb lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 Grandad grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 whistles whistle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 20 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nip** | present | Grandad's sheepdog | Chloe's heels | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location heel=Theme | | 2 | **herd** | gerund | Grandad's sheepdog *not said here* | sheepdog | | | | like a lost lamb | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **whistle off** | present | Grandad | sheepdog | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Topic | 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:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:13`. **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, 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. 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