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title: A frightened animal's trust grows in small signs, like a sniff or a… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: A frightened animal's trust grows in small signs, like a sniff or a tiny wag, often over weeks or months. Who acts: trust, frightened animal. 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
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 29

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A frightened animal's trust grows in small signs, like a sniff or a tiny wag, often over weeks or months.

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**Who acts:** trust, frightened animal · **What happens:** grow, trust · **To what, where:** small signs

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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 (trust, frightened animal), 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:29
# text = A frightened animal's trust grows in small signs, like a sniff or a tiny wag, often over weeks or months.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frightened	frighten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sniff	sniff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wag	wag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | a frightened animal's trust |  |  | small signs like a sniff or a tiny wag | week |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sign=Location |
| 2 | **trust** |  | a frightened animal |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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.

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