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title: «She's tamping if you rush her,» he says — in South Wales «tamping»… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: «She's tamping if you rush her,» he says — in South Wales «tamping» means furious. Who acts: vicar, you, uncle, tamping. 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 the pragmatics of ev
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 16

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«She's tamping if you rush her,» he says — in South Wales «tamping» means furious.

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**Who acts:** vicar, you, uncle, tamping · **What happens:** tamp, rush, say, mean · **To what, where:** vicar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (vicar, you, uncle, tamping), 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:16
# text = «She's tamping if you rush her,» he says — in South Wales «tamping» means furious.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:cop
4	tamping	tamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tamping	tamping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **tamp** *in a quote* | present · progressive | vicar |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rush** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | vicar |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | tamping |  |  |  |  | in South Wales; furious *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=Attribute |

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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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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