--- title: A dog that has bitten once can bite again, so grown-ups make rules l… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog that has bitten once can bite again, so grown-ups make rules like never leaving it alone with small children. Who acts: dog, grown ups. 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 --- [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/34/) [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/) / 34 # The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 34 A dog that has bitten once can bite again, so grown-ups make rules like never leaving it alone with small children. **Who acts:** dog, grown ups · **What happens:** bite, make, not leave · **To what, where:** rules, lead 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 (dog, grown ups), 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:34 # text = A dog that has bitten once can bite again, so grown-ups make rules like never leaving it alone with small children. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 like like SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present · perfect | a dog | | | | | once *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | can | a dog | | | | again | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | grown ups | rules | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product | | 4 | **not** **leave** | gerund | grown ups *not said here* | lead | | | | with small children; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with child=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:34`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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