Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 12

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 · What happens: learn, not teach, use, not want, change · To what, where: new tricks, old dog, saying

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 (Older dogs, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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