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title: Animals can take weeks or months to trust a new person in the house,… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals can take weeks or months to trust a new person in the house, and patient daily care usually wins them over. Who acts: Animals, patient daily care. 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
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# The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 27

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Animals can take weeks or months to trust a new person in the house, and patient daily care usually wins them over.

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**Who acts:** Animals, patient daily care · **What happens:** take, trust, win over · **To what, where:** new person, house, animals

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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 (Animals, patient daily care), 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:27
# text = Animals can take weeks or months to trust a new person in the house, and patient daily care usually wins them over.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod
18	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | can | Animals |  |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trust** | to-infinitive | Animals *not said here* | a new person |  | the house |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **win over** | present | patient daily care | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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**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:27`.

**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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