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title: Sam's dog Scout slips out of a gate left open and Sam searches for h… — The pet that loves you most · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam's dog Scout slips out of a gate left open and Sam searches for hours with a torch until a neighbour finds him two streets away. Who acts: dog Scout, Sam, neighbour. A sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# The pet that loves you most, sentence 15

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Sam's dog Scout slips out of a gate left open and Sam searches for hours with a torch until a neighbour finds him two streets away.

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**Who acts:** dog Scout, Sam, neighbour · **What happens:** slip out, leave, search, find · **To what, where:** gate, Scout

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» 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 Scout, Sam, neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:15
# text = Sam's dog Scout slips out of a gate left open and Sam searches for hours with a torch until a neighbour finds him two streets away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Scout	scout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	searches	search	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **slip out** | present | Sam's dog Scout | a gate |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a gate *not said here* |  |  |  | open *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **search** | present | Sam |  |  |  | hour | with a torch | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | present | a neighbour | Scout |  |  |  | two streets *obl:unmarked* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:15`.

**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, R8-pos-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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