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title: Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a m… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a muzzle when visitors come. Who acts: terrier, visitors. 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 
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 23

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Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a muzzle when visitors come.

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**Who acts:** terrier, visitors · **What happens:** bite, wear, come · **To what, where:** two people, muzzle

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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 (terrier, visitors), 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:23
# text = Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a muzzle when visitors come.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	terrier	terrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Mitzi	Mitzi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present · perfect | Kieran's nan's terrier | two people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | present | terrier | a muzzle |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muzzle=Source |
| 3 | **come** | present | visitors |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23`.

**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): R7-rel-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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