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title: Home is full of pet "facts" like that: wagging means happy, purring… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Home is full of pet "facts" like that: wagging means happy, purring means happy, a warm dry nose means ill, a dog's mouth is cleaner than yours, old dogs can't learn new tricks. Who acts: Home, warm dry nose, mouth, old dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the my
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# Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 2

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Home is full of pet "facts" like that: wagging means happy, purring means happy, a warm dry nose means ill, a dog's mouth is cleaner than yours, old dogs can't learn new tricks.

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**Who acts:** Home, warm dry nose, mouth, old dogs · **What happens:** be, wag, means, purr, mean, not learn · **To what, where:** new tricks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (Home, warm dry nose, mouth, old dogs), 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:2
# text = Home is full of pet "facts" like that: wagging means happy, purring means happy, a warm dry nose means ill, a dog's mouth is cleaner than yours, old dogs can't learn new tricks.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
16	purring	purr	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	nsubj	_	_
17	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj
41	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Home |  |  |  |  | of pet facts like that; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wag** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **means** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **purr** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **means** | present |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | a warm dry nose |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | a dog's mouth |  |  |  |  | than yours; clean *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **learn** | can | old dogs | new tricks |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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