--- title: Dogs often follow their owner's lead, so being kind and trusted by t… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs often follow their owner's lead, so being kind and trusted by the owner can help a dog accept you. Who acts: Dogs, dog. 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 o --- [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/32/) [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/) / 32 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 32 Dogs often follow their owner's lead, so being kind and trusted by the owner can help a dog accept you. **Who acts:** Dogs, dog · **What happens:** follow, be, trust, help, accept · **To what, where:** lead, dog, you 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 (Dogs, dog), 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:32 # text = Dogs often follow their owner's lead, so being kind and trusted by the owner can help a dog accept you. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 9 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 csubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Dogs | signs's owner's lead | | | | often *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | can | Dogs *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **accept** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | you | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:32`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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