--- title: Older dogs can learn new tricks with patience and treats; the saying… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Older dogs can learn new tricks with patience and treats; the saying «you can't teach an old dog new tricks» is mostly used about people who don't want to change. Who acts: Older dogs, you, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Older dogs, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:12 # text = Older dogs can learn new tricks with patience and treats; the saying «you can't teach an old dog new tricks» is mostly used about people who don't want to change. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 saying say NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | can | Older dogs | new tricks | | | | with patience and treats | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | | 2 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | you | new tricks | a old dog | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient trick=Topic | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | the saying | | | | about people; mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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