--- title: Chloe's uncle in Cardiff has a rescue lurcher who took six months to… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Chloe's uncle in Cardiff has a rescue lurcher who took six months to let anyone but him touch her. Who acts: uncle, rescue lurcher, anyone. 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 and t --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 15 Chloe's uncle in Cardiff has a rescue lurcher who took six months to let anyone but him touch her. **Who acts:** uncle, rescue lurcher, anyone · **What happens:** have, take, let, touch · **To what, where:** rescue lurcher, vicar 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 (uncle, rescue lurcher, anyone), 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:15 # text = Chloe's uncle in Cardiff has a rescue lurcher who took six months to let anyone but him touch her. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Cardiff Cardiff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 lurcher lurcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 conj _ _ 19 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Chloe's uncle in Cardiff | a rescue lurcher | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lurcher=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | a rescue lurcher | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | a rescue lurcher *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | infinitive | anyone | vicar | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | 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:15`. **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): 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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