--- title: Some animals never warm up to a person however kindly they are treat… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals never warm up to a person however kindly they are treated, and that is not the person's fault. Who acts: animals, that. 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 prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The dog that wags at last, and the one…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does/) / 30 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 30 Some animals never warm up to a person however kindly they are treated, and that is not the person's fault. **Who acts:** animals, that · **What happens:** not warm up, treat, not be · **To what, where:** signs, fault 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 (animals, that), 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:30 # text = Some animals never warm up to a person however kindly they are treated, and that is not the person's fault. # 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 ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 10 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **warm up** | present | some animals | | | | | to a person *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to person=Result | | 2 | **treat** | present · passive | | signs *= sign* | | | | kindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | that | the person's fault | | | | | tree rules | 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:30`. **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 ×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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