--- title: And Rocky, the corner-shop dog, ignored Jake for years — until Jake… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: And Rocky, the corner-shop dog, ignored Jake for years — until Jake helped the shopkeeper carry boxes in the rain. Who acts: Rocky, Jake. 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 --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 20 And Rocky, the corner-shop dog, ignored Jake for years — until Jake helped the shopkeeper carry boxes in the rain. **Who acts:** Rocky, Jake · **What happens:** ignore, help, carry · **To what, where:** Jake, shopkeeper boxes, rain 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 (Rocky, Jake), 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:20 # text = And Rocky, the corner-shop dog, ignored Jake for years — until Jake helped the shopkeeper carry boxes in the rain. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 Rocky Rocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ignored ignore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | past | Rocky | Jake | | | year | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme | | 2 | **help** | past | Jake | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | infinitive | Jake *not said here* | shopkeeper boxes | | the rain | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Value in rain=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:20`. **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 ×4, 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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