--- title: On Chloe's third visit, the lurcher sniffs her shoe and gives one ti… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: On Chloe's third visit, the lurcher sniffs her shoe and gives one tiny wag. Who acts: lurcher, Chloe. 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 every clause. --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 17 On Chloe's third visit, the lurcher sniffs her shoe and gives one tiny wag. **Who acts:** lurcher, Chloe · **What happens:** sniff, give, visit · **To what, where:** shoe, third visit, one tiny wag 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 (lurcher, Chloe), 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:17 # text = On Chloe's third visit, the lurcher sniffs her shoe and gives one tiny wag. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lurcher lurcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 wag wag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | present | the lurcher | lurcher's shoe | | Chloe's third visit | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | the lurcher *not said here* | one tiny wag | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wag=Theme | | 3 | **visit** | | Chloe | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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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