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title: Sam tries the same patience with Tank the bulldog: sitting on the wa… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam tries the same patience with Tank the bulldog: sitting on the wall outside number 14 every day. Who acts: Sam. 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 of every cl
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# The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 7

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Sam tries the same patience with Tank the bulldog: sitting on the wall outside number 14 every day.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** try, sit · **To what, where:** same patience, wall

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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 (Sam), 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:7
# text = Sam tries the same patience with Tank the bulldog: sitting on the wall outside number 14 every day.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tank	tank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bulldog	bulldog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **try** | present | Sam | the same patience |  |  |  | with Tank | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent patience=Patient with tank=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Sam *not said here* |  |  | the wall outside number | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |

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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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**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:7`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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