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title: Some dogs can't be trusted at all. — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some dogs can't be trusted at all. 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.
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 22

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Some dogs can't be trusted at all.

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**What happens:** not trust · **To what, where:** dogs, all

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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: 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:22
# text = Some dogs can't be trusted at all.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | can · passive |  | some dogs |  | all |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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): no change. **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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