--- title: Lily's new neighbour has a greyhound called Ghost, an ex-racing dog… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Lily's new neighbour has a greyhound called Ghost, an ex-racing dog who never lived in a house before. Who acts: new neighbour, ex-racing dog. A sentence of the lesson «The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/0/) [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 dog that wags at last, and the one…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/) / 0 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 0 Lily's new neighbour has a greyhound called Ghost, an ex-racing dog who never lived in a house before. **Who acts:** new neighbour, ex-racing dog · **What happens:** have, call, not live · **To what, where:** greyhound, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does» 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 (new neighbour, ex-racing dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:0 # text = Lily's new neighbour has a greyhound called Ghost, an ex-racing dog who never lived in a house before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 greyhound greyhound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 Ghost ghost PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 ex-racing ex-racing ADJ JJ _ 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 before before ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **have** | present | Lily's new neighbour | a greyhound | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a greyhound *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **live** | past | a ex-racing dog | | | a house | | before *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | 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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/36/) - next →: [The dog that wags at last, and the one…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/)