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title: «The muzzle keeps her home with me.» Connor's dog Rex bit a toddler… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The muzzle keeps her home with me.» Connor's dog Rex bit a toddler who pulled his ears, so Rex is never left alone with little ones again. Who acts: muzzle, dog, toddler. 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 schoo
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 25

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«The muzzle keeps her home with me.» Connor's dog Rex bit a toddler who pulled his ears, so Rex is never left alone with little ones again.

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**Who acts:** muzzle, dog, toddler · **What happens:** keep, bit, pull, not leave · **To what, where:** home, toddler, ears, Rex · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (muzzle, dog, toddler), 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:25
# text = «The muzzle keeps her home with me.» Connor's dog Rex bit a toddler who pulled his ears, so Rex is never left alone with little ones again.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	Rex	Rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bit	bit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
24	Rex	Rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | the muzzle | muzzle's home |  |  |  | with Nan | tree rules |
| 2 | **bit** | past | Connor's dog | a toddler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull** | past | a toddler | Rex's ears |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **leave** | present · passive |  | Rex |  |  | again | with little ones; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with one=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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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