--- title: So every Saturday Lily sits quietly in the room with a book, never r… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: So every Saturday Lily sits quietly in the room with a book, never reaching out, never calling him. Who acts: Lily. 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 c --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 2 So every Saturday Lily sits quietly in the room with a book, never reaching out, never calling him. **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** sit, not reach out, not call · **To what, where:** room, Lily · **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 (Lily), 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:2 # text = So every Saturday Lily sits quietly in the room with a book, never reaching out, never calling him. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 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 | **sit** | present | Lily | | | the room | saturday | with a book; quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | | 2 | **not** **reach out** | gerund | Lily *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **call** | gerund | Lily *not said here* | | Lily | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | 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:2`. **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 ×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. 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