--- title: Shy or frightened dogs make friends on their own terms; quiet patien… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Shy or frightened dogs make friends on their own terms; quiet patience works better than treats, calling or grabbing. Who acts: Shy dogs, quiet patience, friends. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shy dogs, quiet patience, friends), 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:28 # text = Shy or frightened dogs make friends on their own terms; quiet patience works better than treats, calling or grabbing. # 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 Shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 grabbing grab VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Shy dogs | friends | | friends's own terms | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | | 2 | **work** | present | quiet patience | | | | | than treats; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | gerund | quiet patience *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grab** | gerund | quiet patience *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **term** | | friends *= friend* | | | | | | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:28`. **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. 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